How do newspapers get from the printing factory, to newsagents where they are then exibited and sold, to straight to the buyer?
For a newspaper to get to a newsagents it is often sent early in the morning straight to it via transport which was organised by the newspaper itself. A buyer will then buy it from that newsagents.
When newspapers are sold via postage, and the buyer gets the newspaper delivered to their home, it is the newsagents who organise it. The buyer would be buying the newspaper from the newsagents, not the newspapers office.
When newspapers are sold via vending machines, the newspapers are normally delivered and put in their by the newspaper itself. This is because the vending machine is firstly owned by the newspaper, and the people who want one in their business buy it off the newspaper.
Here is a video that somebody has made about our journey through newspaper production:
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The Production of Newspapers.
I am really interested to research the ways that newspapers are created from a story, to the newsagents and then to us reading it. it does depend on how often a newspaper is issued, weekly, monthly, daily etc, but this research is based solely on daily newspapers (with the exeption of sunday) as they need to completed in the shortest time. Also i am planning for my newspaper to be daily.I did a lot of research into this and try to explain the reasons why things are done the way they are:
Production:
Workers who produce the newspapers usually work from monday to friday, so sunday and money editions largely depend on the content done in advance or content that is syndicated. Most daily papers are published in the morning - whether it is a morning, afternoon or evening paper.
Wikipedia mentions that there are four main stages of publishing a newspaper:
1. Editorial work
This is where the articles are selected for the particular newspaper and the healine is chosen. This headline is very important as it is likely to created more of an interest from a possible buyer.
2. Production/printing
This is where the papers are pysically printed either in black and white or colour, depending on the paper. If the newspaper offers stories online, web designers and web masters are employed to create them to look aestheically pleasing to the audience.
3. Circulation - selling the paper
This is the department of newspapers where retailers of the newspaper are contacted and where subscriptions of the paper are sold. This department also supervises distribution of the printed newspapers through the mail, by newspaper carriers, at retailers, and vending machines. Free newspapers do not sell subscriptions but they still have a circulation department responsible of distributing the newspapers.
4. Advertising
This department sell spaces of the newspaper to clients so they can advertise their buisness, they can also help their clients to design and plan their advertising campaigns. There would be no adverts in an advertising-free newspaper, so the paper is run by the profit made from sales alone. Free newspapers primarily are funded by adverts as people are more likely to pick up a free newspaper.
These four stages can be described in a variety of different names.
The editorial work is very complicated and there are a lot of employers involved. I have done a post and a powerpoint about people who work in the production of newspapers and the descriptions of their job.
Here is a website that talks about the machines used to produce newspapers. I just thought it was helpful because it shows the amount of stages that one newspaper goes through when being made:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/newspaper4.htm
Production:
Workers who produce the newspapers usually work from monday to friday, so sunday and money editions largely depend on the content done in advance or content that is syndicated. Most daily papers are published in the morning - whether it is a morning, afternoon or evening paper.
Wikipedia mentions that there are four main stages of publishing a newspaper:
1. Editorial work
This is where the articles are selected for the particular newspaper and the healine is chosen. This headline is very important as it is likely to created more of an interest from a possible buyer.
2. Production/printing
This is where the papers are pysically printed either in black and white or colour, depending on the paper. If the newspaper offers stories online, web designers and web masters are employed to create them to look aestheically pleasing to the audience.
3. Circulation - selling the paper
This is the department of newspapers where retailers of the newspaper are contacted and where subscriptions of the paper are sold. This department also supervises distribution of the printed newspapers through the mail, by newspaper carriers, at retailers, and vending machines. Free newspapers do not sell subscriptions but they still have a circulation department responsible of distributing the newspapers.
4. Advertising
This department sell spaces of the newspaper to clients so they can advertise their buisness, they can also help their clients to design and plan their advertising campaigns. There would be no adverts in an advertising-free newspaper, so the paper is run by the profit made from sales alone. Free newspapers primarily are funded by adverts as people are more likely to pick up a free newspaper.
These four stages can be described in a variety of different names.
The editorial work is very complicated and there are a lot of employers involved. I have done a post and a powerpoint about people who work in the production of newspapers and the descriptions of their job.
Here is a website that talks about the machines used to produce newspapers. I just thought it was helpful because it shows the amount of stages that one newspaper goes through when being made:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/newspaper4.htm
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Statistics and Audience Demographics of Existing Newspapers.
As i am making two pages of a local paper, i need to find the statistics of them and the demographics of their audiences. Doing this will give me an idea of what the 'competition' is if i was to really release my newspaper to be sold. I'm going to look at newspapers which are local in my area.
So here is some information i got from the newspaper's websites:
I had to sign up to this website in order to get extra information on their website. I then had to contact them via e-mail myself asking the demographics of their newspaper. It was quite a formal and informative letter. The statistics of their audience is not something they are likely to publish as they may not want people to know.
Here is a London Newspaper, which is local to London but is handed out free to passers by. As it is free, it may make their audiences bigger and wider, so the audience demographics and stats might not be completely helpful to me, but give me a general idea of what audiences read newspapers (even though i've done a questionnaire)'
To find out the audience information of this paper, i looked at this website -
http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/factsAndFigures?newspaperID=5 - which isn't official so may not give me a realistic idea. The print screen of the website, which declares the stats of the London Evening Standard is below. I know its not clear, but i get the general idea when looking at it, and also it can be seen on the website.
I am sure that i will find out a few more statistics on newspapers in the future and when i hopefully get an e-mail back from the Norwich Evening News.
So here is some information i got from the newspaper's websites:
Here is a London Newspaper, which is local to London but is handed out free to passers by. As it is free, it may make their audiences bigger and wider, so the audience demographics and stats might not be completely helpful to me, but give me a general idea of what audiences read newspapers (even though i've done a questionnaire)'
To find out the audience information of this paper, i looked at this website -
http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/factsAndFigures?newspaperID=5 - which isn't official so may not give me a realistic idea. The print screen of the website, which declares the stats of the London Evening Standard is below. I know its not clear, but i get the general idea when looking at it, and also it can be seen on the website.
I am sure that i will find out a few more statistics on newspapers in the future and when i hopefully get an e-mail back from the Norwich Evening News.
How often are newspapers and articles released?
I wanted to see if there were certain days newspapers are put on sale and why at those particular times. It would be easy to say when they are released, weekly, daily etc, but i wanted to know the reasons for this. It is different to news being reported online than it is on paper.
If a article is reported online, it can more or less be uploaded as soon as the story is found out and the article written. However for paper, the story would have to go out the next day, depending on when the story is heard of.
When it comes to a weekly newspaper, stories have to wait that long for them to be told in the paper, unless that newspaper has a website which is updated regularly.
After a lot of research i found that most newspapers in the UK are daily, and then have a Sunday version with a similar name, eg, Mil on Sunday (Daily Mail), Daily Star Sunday (Daily Star) and The Sunday Times (The Times).
This website has links to nearly every national and regional paper in the UK:
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/
If a article is reported online, it can more or less be uploaded as soon as the story is found out and the article written. However for paper, the story would have to go out the next day, depending on when the story is heard of.
When it comes to a weekly newspaper, stories have to wait that long for them to be told in the paper, unless that newspaper has a website which is updated regularly.
After a lot of research i found that most newspapers in the UK are daily, and then have a Sunday version with a similar name, eg, Mil on Sunday (Daily Mail), Daily Star Sunday (Daily Star) and The Sunday Times (The Times).
This website has links to nearly every national and regional paper in the UK:
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/
Free Newspapers.
I wanted to do some research of free newspapers and how they are able to be free. Free newspapers are able to be free due to the advertisements inside. As people like free things, they are more likely to pick up the paper, therefore are more likely to see the advertisements inside.
The impact that free newspapers have on the environment is vast. As people have'nt paid for the papers, they therefore have a less concern or care for where they throw them away. Also, free newspapers are often daily.
In Liverpool Street Station in London, the free newspaper the Evening Standard is handed out daily, which is a good move for the paper as millions of people pass every week. People often want something to red while on the train, and something free is even better.
Free papers also have posters, and probably advertise on the radio. The more people are aware that it is free, the more people are likely to pick it up.
The impact that free newspapers have on the environment is vast. As people have'nt paid for the papers, they therefore have a less concern or care for where they throw them away. Also, free newspapers are often daily.
In Liverpool Street Station in London, the free newspaper the Evening Standard is handed out daily, which is a good move for the paper as millions of people pass every week. People often want something to red while on the train, and something free is even better.
Free papers also have posters, and probably advertise on the radio. The more people are aware that it is free, the more people are likely to pick it up.
This week's Targets.
This little post is a list of the things i need to do this week:
- Plan and then do a questionnaire
- Do a few different copies of the questionnaire to reach the final one which should be the best.
- Interview different types and ages of people about newspapers in general, in order to get full answers.
How much to exaggerate a story?
I wanted to do some research on how much a story can be exaggerated in order to sell more newspapers. I know for a fact that a tabloids write about a lot of celebrities, they are more likely, and have more reason to exaggerate the real situations. But what does a broadsheet have to gain from exaggerating a local story?
I already know that whatever we read in the media, isn't fully true, it never has been. This is because it is more interesting to read, sells more papers and creates more of a stir around a certain story in order to sell even more newspapers.
Tabloid newspapers usually exaggerate a story because they hook in the kind of audiences that would like to read about something shocking. When writing about celebs, people that the public aspire to be like or like to read about stories are very often made much more dramatic than they actually are to cause stir round that certain celeb so more articles can be written about them. As readers, we do know that headlines and stories aren't always what they seem. I often ask myself: "how would they get that kind of information" when i see some private info about a celeb written in the paper. But after the phone-hacking scandal, my question seemed a little bit answered.
To put it bluntly, we are as some may say, lied to on a daily basis. However, in conversation with friends we may exaggerate a story to make it sound more exiting or dramatic than it actually is. It is something which we do ourselves but might not necessarily admit because it is looked down on - which is something i am going to do while researching how much newspapers exaggerate a story.
As i have researched, there aren't any really big laws or regulations that newspapers have to follow, so they can do pretty much what they like with a story, without being libel or writing slander - which i have seen slightly in newspapers nowadays.
I have found a few case studies to look at which could get me to the conclusion of how effective it is for newspapers to over exaggerate a story. I found these particular studies which searching online and then found a list from 2009 by the Telegraph newspaper of the top celebrity stories of that year. This is a very good page because it states a lot of different forms of controversy through one story. I have kept in mind that the Telegraph is a newspaper and they may have exaggerated:
Here is the page: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/6841016/Top-10-celebrity-stories-of-2009.html
Here are a few stories which caught my eye and that i definitely have an opinion on:
Micheal Jackson
He died in 2009 after an overdose which wasn't known at the time to be suicide, murder or man-slaughter. Throughout Jackson's life there have been some pretty bizarre stories written about him such as; who fathered his children, his plastic surgery and his own intentions. Because these are such strange stories, do people actually believe them? If they are so weird, we know they cont realistically be true, but because these are celebs we almost think that these crazy things could happen and we MUST read about it.
After Jackson died the crazy allegations of his life were still going about, and how he died is still in the papers today due to an on going investigation into how he was killed. Jackson was a mega-star and some peo0ple refused to even believe he was dead - showing that not everybody believes the papers, and prefer to believe something even more ridiculous! As Jackson was a mega-star it was a big deal, therefore a lot of people want to read ANY kind of story about him, selling newspapers very fast!
My opinion about this whole story is that everything in Micheal Jackson's life was blown wayy out of proportion, every story was ridiculous. I put this down to the idea that people believe that in the celebrity world, anything is possible.
Kanye West at the VMAs
I have to admit, i thought this was one of the best stories i heard about in 2009. It gave us as an audience an insight into the real Kanye West - a very rude and inconsiderate person - let alone an egomaniac.
At the VMAs, Kanye West took it to himself to jump on stage while Taylor Swift was receiving her first award for Best Female Video to say that Beyonce should have won this award. This was all happening while Taylor Swift was still standing on stage trying to present her thank-you speech. I didn't know until now reading that rumours of Kanye's death was going around in the papers - the papers clearly had no proof or evidence to support this showing that they can literally write anything untrue as somebody dying.
Certain stories can definitely get out of control, whether that is the story itself, the hype around it, conflicting views and because it isn't on the legal side to publish it. A story which didn't go down well with the law or the subject can put harm, not only the subject the article is about, but also the newspaper itself - shooting themselves in the foot.
Many celebrities have sued newspapers due to the content they have published about them - whether true or not. the celebs could blame the newspaper for harming their work and public image. However, the newspapers always seem to come out on top, they can publish stories about the celeb suing. Newspapers never learn from it and carry on to do what they did before, because being sued doesn't harm their income too much if a national newspaper.My Newspaper
I am not planning to take too much time on my newspaper stories because my task isn't to write the best article, it is to create a newspaper that somebody would like to read. I have seen that headlines are normally the most exaggerated part of an article because it hooks the reader and makes hem want to read the article.
I already know that whatever we read in the media, isn't fully true, it never has been. This is because it is more interesting to read, sells more papers and creates more of a stir around a certain story in order to sell even more newspapers.
Tabloid newspapers usually exaggerate a story because they hook in the kind of audiences that would like to read about something shocking. When writing about celebs, people that the public aspire to be like or like to read about stories are very often made much more dramatic than they actually are to cause stir round that certain celeb so more articles can be written about them. As readers, we do know that headlines and stories aren't always what they seem. I often ask myself: "how would they get that kind of information" when i see some private info about a celeb written in the paper. But after the phone-hacking scandal, my question seemed a little bit answered.
To put it bluntly, we are as some may say, lied to on a daily basis. However, in conversation with friends we may exaggerate a story to make it sound more exiting or dramatic than it actually is. It is something which we do ourselves but might not necessarily admit because it is looked down on - which is something i am going to do while researching how much newspapers exaggerate a story.
As i have researched, there aren't any really big laws or regulations that newspapers have to follow, so they can do pretty much what they like with a story, without being libel or writing slander - which i have seen slightly in newspapers nowadays.
I have found a few case studies to look at which could get me to the conclusion of how effective it is for newspapers to over exaggerate a story. I found these particular studies which searching online and then found a list from 2009 by the Telegraph newspaper of the top celebrity stories of that year. This is a very good page because it states a lot of different forms of controversy through one story. I have kept in mind that the Telegraph is a newspaper and they may have exaggerated:
Here is the page: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/6841016/Top-10-celebrity-stories-of-2009.html
Here are a few stories which caught my eye and that i definitely have an opinion on:
Micheal Jackson
After Jackson died the crazy allegations of his life were still going about, and how he died is still in the papers today due to an on going investigation into how he was killed. Jackson was a mega-star and some peo0ple refused to even believe he was dead - showing that not everybody believes the papers, and prefer to believe something even more ridiculous! As Jackson was a mega-star it was a big deal, therefore a lot of people want to read ANY kind of story about him, selling newspapers very fast!
My opinion about this whole story is that everything in Micheal Jackson's life was blown wayy out of proportion, every story was ridiculous. I put this down to the idea that people believe that in the celebrity world, anything is possible.
Kanye West at the VMAs
I have to admit, i thought this was one of the best stories i heard about in 2009. It gave us as an audience an insight into the real Kanye West - a very rude and inconsiderate person - let alone an egomaniac.
At the VMAs, Kanye West took it to himself to jump on stage while Taylor Swift was receiving her first award for Best Female Video to say that Beyonce should have won this award. This was all happening while Taylor Swift was still standing on stage trying to present her thank-you speech. I didn't know until now reading that rumours of Kanye's death was going around in the papers - the papers clearly had no proof or evidence to support this showing that they can literally write anything untrue as somebody dying.My opinion is that he made himself look very silly, and the newspapers used this to their own advantage, selling newspapers by the shed-load because of this story of a very well-known performer.
Certain stories can definitely get out of control, whether that is the story itself, the hype around it, conflicting views and because it isn't on the legal side to publish it. A story which didn't go down well with the law or the subject can put harm, not only the subject the article is about, but also the newspaper itself - shooting themselves in the foot.
Many celebrities have sued newspapers due to the content they have published about them - whether true or not. the celebs could blame the newspaper for harming their work and public image. However, the newspapers always seem to come out on top, they can publish stories about the celeb suing. Newspapers never learn from it and carry on to do what they did before, because being sued doesn't harm their income too much if a national newspaper.My Newspaper
I am not planning to take too much time on my newspaper stories because my task isn't to write the best article, it is to create a newspaper that somebody would like to read. I have seen that headlines are normally the most exaggerated part of an article because it hooks the reader and makes hem want to read the article.
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