2023 Daily Mirror and The Times GCSE Media Studies Newspaper CSP

Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Newspaper unit on The Daily Mirror and The Times. The 75 slide, 12 lesson resource includes all resources and twelve lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to The Daily Mirror and The Times. The politics of the press and impact on content.
Lesson 2: Comparing tabloids and broadsheets including key media language terms and analysis of pages.
Lesson 3: Detailed Daily Mirror analysis and media language and representation.
Lesson 4: Detailed Times analysis and media language and representation.
Lesson 5 and 6: A semiotic analysis of The Daily Mirror and The Times using media theories including Propp, Todorov, Barthes and Levi-Strauss.
Lesson 7: Audience analysis of The Daily Mirror and The Times including using media theories such as Blumler and Katz and Stuart Hall.
Lesson 9: How groups, people and events are represented in The Daily Mirror and The Times CSPs and why.
Lesson 10: The changing nature of newspaper circulation and distribution.
Lesson 11: Ownership of The Daily Mirror and The Times and how they have adapted in the light of changing audience habits.
Lesson 12: Press regulation and guidance for higher grades
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