Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Audience and Industries

 Audience


1) What is the Daily Mirror's audience? List the key statistics here.
The Daily Mirror's audience is mostly older people, with almost half of their audience being aged over 30-50 years old. Most readers are of NRS social grades C1, C2 or DE, making them mostly working class. 
2) Why do the Mirror stories on the CSP pages appeal to the Daily Mirror audience?
Because they involve information that involved in the specific time period as it is relevant.
3) Why might a reader enjoy the Daily Mirror? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory to add detail to your answer.
Reader might enjoy the daily mirror as it bring relevant news that is inf
4) Why are print newspapers generally read by older audiences?
Because there generation are used to reading off information that comes off physically instead of digitally.

5) How are the CSP pages constructed to appeal to Daily Mirror readers? Think about text and selection of images.
The use of main images create a striking appeal for the audiences who are reading to catch there attention. This is because its a symbolic and technical code to create meaning for the audience.
Industries

1) What company owns the Daily Mirror and why are they struggling? 
The company is struggling to create revenue and profit to extend there funds of advertising there content across all platforms.

2) Who was the Daily Mirror editor between 2018 and 2024 and what was the Partygate scandal that the Daily Mirror exposed?  
The conservative party went against there rules that they have created for everyone.
3) What is the Daily Mirror's circulation? How many papers did the Daily Mirror used to sell back in the 1990s?
60 million copies.
4) How has the Daily Mirror reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet?
They had a major decrease revenue and its algorithm to deprioritise news content
5) List five of Galtung & Ruge's News Values and explain how they link to the stories in our CSP edition of the Daily Mirror.'
Negativity-Informing the readers about the scandal about Fujitsu.
Personalization- Relevant news that brings interests to the readers.
Proximity- Post office and Fujitsu having relevance.
Elite persons-Prime ministers such as Rishi Sunak was mentioned in the daily mirror newspaper                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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