Blog tasks: The Times Case Study - Audience and Industries

Audience


1) What are the main audience demographics for The Times newspaper? Add as much detail as you can. the upper class as the times have more advanced  vocabulary thus targetting the higher educated audience .

2) What aspects of the front page of the Times CSP edition suggest that their readers are likely to be more educated and interested in hard news rather than entertainment? the times contains hardcore news 

3) Times readers are mostly over 55 years old. Why is this and how is this reflected or challenged by the design and news stories in the CSP pages we have studied?  the times contain haredcore news thus not attracting any younger audience who would like soft news.

4) What are the main audience pleasures offered by the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory.
survillance,entainment , personal identity ,becoming an active participant 

5) Why might a reader enjoy this CSP edition of the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory categories and write as detailed an analysis as you can. Survillance is used to go trough the scandal as people would want to know whats going on the world aswell as entertainment as readers would want to be enteraitned and this scandal has been made enterating by the times.

Industries

1) Who owns the Times? Write the name of the company AND the billionaire who owns the company.
rupert murdoch 
2) What was the The Times's circulation in 2019? How many papers did the Times used to sell back in the 1990s? You can find all of these statistics in the blogpost above. 
376000 now but before use to sell 800000

3) How has the Times reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet? Watch the two videos above for more on this.

4) What does IPSO stand for and what is IPSO's job?

5) Why do some people want stronger regulation of British newspapers? Look at the information above on newspaper regulation to find out more on this.

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