The Sun: the newspaper industry — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
The Sun: the newspaper industry
Newspapers: The Sun
What you need to know
The Sun as a product of its industry: a national tabloid daily, with The Sun on Sunday and a website, owned by News UK, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Ownership and control: conglomerate ownership, links across media, and how ownership shapes the paper's political viewpoint.
Funding and convergence: cover price and advertising, the move of readers from print to online, and the website, app and social media as one brand across platforms.
Regulation of the press: IPSO and self-regulation, the challenge of regulating online news, and the phone-hacking scandal that closed the News of the World.
What a complete print edition and the website's homepage typically contain, so that any edition studied in class can be discussed. Section B is about industries and audiences, so answers don't analyse the Section A front page.
