The times-audience and industry

 Audience


1) What are the main audience demographics for The Times newspaper? Add as much detail as you can.

The Times' target audience, according to ABC data, is predominantly ABC1, over 35 and has a liberal/ right-wing political stance. This well-educated and middle-class audience take an interest in national and global affairs and can understand and engage with detailed political reporting.

2) What aspects of the front page of the Times CSP edition suggest that their readers are likely to be more educated and interested in hard news rather than entertainment?

There is more writing and the image is much more smaller which makes it harder for a more younger audience to read it because they would see it as boring.

3) Times readers are mostly over 55 years old. Why is this and how is this reflected or challenged by the design and news stories in the CSP pages we have studied?  

The design of new stories appeal to a wider audience and don't only target an older audience .This can be shown in the story about Gary lineaker because he is a football coach

4) What are the main audience pleasures offered by the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory

personal identity and surveillence because it is educational and speaks about football which would be appealing to an audience

5) Why might a reader enjoy this CSP edition of the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory categories and write as detailed an analysis as you can.

It gives off personal identity and personal relationship because people enjoy listening about football as well as politics

Industries


1) Who owns the Times? Write the name of the company AND the billionaire who owns the company.

The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by the News Corp group headed by Rupert Murdoch.

2) What was the The Times's circulation in 2019? How many papers did the Times used to sell back in the 1990s? You can find all of these statistics in the blogpost above.

2019-417,298

In July 2009 News Corporation had to pay large sums of compensation for the phone hacking scandal, where their journalists were accused of using illegal methods to obtain information. The Times circulation in 2019 was 376,000, down 12% in a year and much lower than the high point of over 800,000 in the 1990s.

3) How has the Times reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet? Watch the two videos above for more on this.

4) What does IPSO stand for and what is IPSO's job?

Ipso regulates newspapers to make sure they don't make any biased comments .Ipso stands for inderpendent press standard organisation

5) Why do some people want stronger regulation of British newspapers? Look at the information above on newspaper regulation to find out more on this.

Some people are againsed the biased comments that are are posted in newspapers

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