The Sun: audiences and the website — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
The Sun: audiences and the website
Newspapers: The Sun
What you need to know
The Sun's audiences: a mass readership, mainly C2DE and older in print, and a wider, younger audience online.
How the paper targets and reaches readers: tone and mode of address, celebrity, sport and entertainment, and the website's design, video, social media and app.
How audiences use and respond to it: Uses and Gratifications, readers who comment and share, and why some people reject the paper.
The 2026 questions: what type of newspaper The Sun is, two audiences for its website, two ways to reach the website, and a 12-mark question on how audiences use news websites to meet their needs.
