Newspapers: Weekly Media homework - news story research

For the Newspapers unit this half-term, you have an ongoing homework EVERY week without fail: to find, read and post TWO news stories on your blog.

The details: every week you must find, read, summarise and comment upon two news stories from the websites of our two newspaper CSPs (The Daily Mail and the 'i'):

Mail Online
The i newspaper website 

You'll also find stories related to the media linked from our Twitter account, @blogmacguffin (access it online here if you don't have the Twitter app) so make sure you're following that too, particularly in the run-up to the final exams.

Newspaper news story research: blog task

Create ONE blogpost that you return to and update weekly. Call it 'Newspaper news story research'. Then, each week you need to visit the MailOnline website and the 'i' newspaper website and choose one story from each to summarise. 

Most importantly, you need to do the following on your blogpost for each story...

1. Provide a title, date and weblink.
2. Summarise the story in your own words: is this is an example of hard news or soft news? You may want to add a graphic or screenshot here.
3. Explain how or why this story appeals to the audience of that newspaper (use media terminology and theory where you can).
4. Comment on the story: to what extent does it reflect the values and ideologies of the newspaper? Is this an example of quality journalism or simply clickbait? 

You'll be presenting these to the class each week (we'll randomly select a student and you'll be expected to present from memory, so make sure you come prepared) and this will ensure you build up a range of stories from both CSPs to provide examples to use in exam questions and essays. 

Due: EVERY week - no excuses. Due for your single lesson each week.