Monday, 13 November 2017

Newspaper Vocabulary

Broadsheet-a newspaper with a large format, regarded as more serious and less sensationalist than tabloids.

Tabloid-a newspaper having pages half the size of a broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories.

Subjective Epistemologies- the ways of telling a story

'Soft news'-celebrity gossip, sport, TV analysis, scandals/controversy, voyeuristic crime reporting

'Hard news'- politics, financial, business, healthcare, education, economy, war and conflict

Immediacy- breaking news stories with the ability to expand its content

Gatekeeping- a term applied to the editing and filtering process where decisions are made to let some information 'pass through' to the receiver (audience) whilst the other information remains barren.


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