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    This document provides instructions for an assignment to analyze online news from British newspapers. It includes tables that list British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, including their political orientations and founding dates. It also lists questions about British newspapers to answer briefly. The questions cover the different terms used to refer to quality and popular presses, characteristics of popular newspapers, the oldest and most conservative quality papers, the best-selling newspaper, features typical of The Sun, newspapers that support the Labour party, daily sports newspapers, what Fleet Street is famous for, and an explanation of free morning papers.

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    This document provides instructions for an assignment to analyze online news from British newspapers. It includes tables that list British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, including their political orientations and founding dates. It also lists questions about British newspapers to answer briefly. The questions cover the different terms used to refer to quality and popular presses, characteristics of popular newspapers, the oldest and most conservative quality papers, the best-selling newspaper, features typical of The Sun, newspapers that support the Labour party, daily sports newspapers, what Fleet Street is famous for, and an explanation of free morning papers.

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    Assignment 1 Module 4

    Treasure Hunt: Online News


    Instructions:
    Use the links selected for each section.
    A. The Press in Britain
    Complete the tables below. Then answer the questions briefly.
    Table 1
    Broadsheets
    The Times

    Tabloids
    The Mail
    Sunday
    Daily Mail

    Right-wing
    on The Sunday
    Times
    The Sunday
    Telegraph
    The
    Morning London
    Star
    Evening
    Standard
    Sunday People Daily Express
    Daily Mirror

    Left-wing
    Sunday Papers
    The Guardian The
    Sun
    on
    Sunday
    The Observer Daily
    Star
    Sunday
    The
    The
    Mail
    on
    International Sunday

    Sunday
    People
    The Mail on Daily Mirror
    Sunday

    Political
    orientation
    The Mirror
    Left-wing
    The Daily Mail
    Right
    The Guardian
    Left and
    social-liberal
    The Express
    Right
    The Daily Telegraph Centre-right
    conservative
    The Independent
    Centre-left
    The Sun
    Conservative

    Sales
    average
    -

    Was
    founded
    1903
    1896
    1821

    1900
    1855

    1986
    1964
    Table 2

    Independent on
    Sunday
    The Observer

    Other features to comment

    1. Do you know any other names to refer to quality press and popular press in Britain?
    Popular press ,quality press ,regional daily papers, weekly papers, weekend supplement,mass
    market tabloids,nationwide press and broadsheets.
    2. Give two characteristics of "popular newspapers
    Bought by readers generally considered to be less educated, they specialize in large photos of
    girls, sports news, letters to the the editor and pages of advertisments. The space between ads
    and photos is filled with gossip about the Royal Family, holiday, horoscopes and articles about
    anyone or anythink not considered true blue British.
    3. Which of the current newspapers is the oldest?
    The Times in 1785.
    4. Which is the most conservative quality paper?
    The Sunday telegraph it is to be considered right wing conservative.
    5. Which of all newspapers sells best?

    The Sun
    6. Which is typical for the Sun newspaper?
    1,978,702
    7. Which newspaper supports the labour party?
    The Guardian, The Observer and The International
    8. Are there any daily newspapers similar to the Spanish Marca containing only sport news?
    NO
    9. What is Fleet Street famous for?
    Fleet Street is a street in the City of London named after the River Fleet, London's largest
    underground river. It was the home of British national newspapers until the 1980s. Even though
    the last major British news office, Reuters, left in 2005,[1] the term Fleet Street continues to be
    used as a metonym for the British national press.
    10. Can you explain what the phenomenon in the second article free morning papers is?
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Free morning newspaper, The Metro, published every weekday, is also part of our
    portfolio,delivering more than 200,000 readers

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