Ownership And Distribution

Distribution
Physical Hard copies
TV
Apps
Social media platforms
Radio
Website

Gatekeeper Role
Controlling, Managing, Transferring knowledge 

The Gatekeeper decides what information should move to group or individual and what information should not.

Features of a traditional news company
  • Owned by a large conglomerate
  • Has news subsidiaries, often specialising in a specific audience or geographic area
  • Products available across a range of distribution platforms
  • Clear political ideology
News Corp
  • Is a large conglomerate
  • Has many news subsidiaries often specialising in a specific audience or geographic area
News Corp operates in 6 different media industries this includes TV, News, Magazines, Radio, Internet and advertising 

They operate in 3 different countries including the UK, Australia and the USA.

The News Corp brands I have heard of include:
  • Talksport
  • The sun
  • Sky news
  • Sky weather
  • The Times
  • The Sunday Times
This makes News Corp powerful as they hold control over so many sectors of media. They control all the social grades and political views.


Meghan and harry leaving the royal family is portrayed on the sun website and its the first thing to pop up. This is to grab the attention of the audience as its a big story that is happening in the UK As the royals are what makes Britain Britain. However this differs to the instagram account t which seems to have either good news stories or celebrity gossip. This is so they can reach their target audience and distribute certain stories to they teenagers/ Young adults.



Left wing= Green Party and labour                                 Right wing= Conservative, Brexit party








News Corp-  Rupert Murdoch
Guardian media group-Neil Berkett 
BBC News-Huw Edwards
Daily Mail & General trust- The Vicecount Rothermere
Trinity Mirror- Nicholas Prettejohn
ITN- Anna Mallet
Buzzfeed-Jonah Peretti
The Press Association- Murdoch MacLENNAN
Reuters- Jim Smith



A press agency is an organisation that gathers news reports and sells them (or images or footage) to subscribing news institutions including papers, websites and broadcasters. Their news is as neutral and unbiased as possible – sticking to the facts. They are not publishers – they just provide information and resources for traditional news companies. Examples include: Reuters, The Press Association.

BBC

Description and structure of institution:
The BBC is government owned so we pay our TV licence in order to fund them. It is. Public Service Broadcaster

Locations:
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. 
BBC Elstree Centre









BBC Subsidiaries
BBC News
BBC Radio
BBC 1
BBC 2
BBC 3
BBC 4
BBC Films
BBC Creative


Political allegiance
The BBC is the main source of news consumption for people in Britain so they need to ensure their political opinions stay in the middle and are not leaning one way due to the fact everyone in Britain will have access to iy if they pay their TV licence therefore they need to cater to everyones needs.


Distribution platforms
Website
Tv
Apps
Social media 


Audience
The BBC audience are more middle age upper class (C1,B, A) due to the language used where as Lower middle class would watch more ITV News due bro the more informal language.











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