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Bodyguard final episode watched by 11m viewers on BBC One – biggest drama audience since Doctor Who’s 50th Final Bodyguard episode was watched by 48% of the available viewing audience, peaking at 11m viewers Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/news/bodyguard-final-watched-by-11m-viewers-biggest-audience-since-doctor-whos-50th/ https://inews.co.uk/news/bodyguard-final-watched-by-11m-viewers-biggest-audience-since-doctor-whos-50th/ Sunday night’s Bodyguard finale was watched by a peak of 11m viewers on BBC1, the largest drama audience since Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary in 2013. The extended 75-minute episode of the thriller which gripped the nation was seen by an average of 10.4m viewers. 11m peak The number peaked at 11m as the truth about the plot to kill Home Secretary Julia Montague was finally revealed. Bodyguard final peaks with 11m viewers (Photo: BBC) Bodyguard dominated viewing choices – bad news for ITV’s rival period drama Vanity Fair –  with a 48% share of the aud...

1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? He gave the case of the Catholic Church conceal the Boston Globe gave in 2002. A cleric could mishandle more than 100 children as the congregation would bring him into recovery and after that fizzled; he could do this in many dioceses. Responsibility Journalism gives us more capacity to raise accounts of debasement and conceal. This kind of news coverage is contracting which is unsafe as we can't consider people with significant influence responsible. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? Sponsors before needed to overpay daily papers to have a place, as there weren't numerous different options previously. It's not true anymore where supply sets the cost yet the genuine interest of them...

Chrissy Teigen hits back at cruel body-shamer who asked if she is pregnant at Emmy Awards just four months after model gave birth   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6179147/Chrissy-Teigen-hits-cruel-body-shamer-asked-pregnant-Emmy-Awards.html       This news story is about a famous celebrity known as Chrissy Teigen who faced some cruel judgements about her appearance and figure from commentators just four months post pregnancy. This scene occurred at the Emmy's on Monday, where the body shamer had targeted her with a disrespectful comment knowing she recently gave birth to her second child. However, Chrissy Teigen didn't let this particular comment slide and responded sarcastically, hitting back at the hater by saying ' I just had a baby but thank you for being soooo respectful.'  Furthermore, this is an example of soft news due to the fact that it displays news that focuses on entertainment within society and specifically...

The death of print media: Fact sheet  blog tasks Go to our Media Fact sheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open  Fact sheet  165: The death of print media . Our Media Fact sheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media  Fact sheets Read the Fact-sheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) What has happened to print media in the last 30 years? Gatherings of people have since had picked up the ability to end up makers of the media as they can get to all data for nothing with the flexibility of the web. Income strategies for Newspapers from promoting income has declined exponentially. This is all a direct result of the ascent in advanced media and the gatherings of people decision to get to data for nothing and to speak with various different shoppers, from various nations.  2) Why is the  Independent  newspaper such a good case study for the decline in print media? At its top in the late 90s, it h...

Blog task 1: The impact of Google Read  this article looking at the impact Google has had on the traditional newspaper business . Answer the following questions: 1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? Since it is currently more helpful to get to delicate and hard news using google, they pulled in a considerable measure of clients that needed to promote on their internet searcher which prompted media organizations siphoning billions in publicizing income over the previous decade or something like that. 2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media. Daily paper organizations had a decrease of $40 billion, or around 60 percent of the advertisement income in 2000. 3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?  2005 - 20012 as this is was close to when the internet was introduced. 4) Do you personally t...

"within 25 years, all newspapers will be available online only - nothing will be printed". I personally agree with this particular statement which is that all newspapers will be available online only in 25 years and nothing will be printed, due to the fact that throughout the time periods , there has been a huge decrease in the numbers of people within society that purchase and read newspapers. This is because of social media and how it has created a huge impact on society and influenced a lot of the young generation to process most things through social media. Therefore i believe that this thought of the fact that social media can be utilised for their needs instead of using books will urge more people to go online for information and any other requirements. This will then generate a great decrease in the revenue and profit within businesses that promote newspapers and magazines as most citizens won't buy their products. Thus, as time passes, the amount of people that ...