13E homework: newspapers in decline

Your homework this week is to develop the work we have done in class on the decline in newspapers. It involves three tasks:

1) Finish the work from the lesson: What audience pleasures or gratifications does online news content offer?

Answer this question in detail (with examples/theories) on your MEST3 exam blog. Use the handout to help you. Minimum 400 words.

2) Your regular homework: two NDM stories on your MEST3 exam blog (numbered #11 and #12) with one covering something to do with journalism or news.

3) Read Telegraph group takes a great leap into the digital unknown from the Guardian website this week. It's the ideal example of a NDM story that covers news and journalism and I'd like you to summarise the story in 50 words and answer one question: 

Has the Telegraph made a good or bad decision in sacking editor Tony Gallagher? 

Answer on your MEST3 exam blog.

Due: Thursday 6 February