Case Study: The Paradise Papers story coverage

Find all of the information about the story and how the different newspapers covered the facts in the notes from today's class below. You need to create your own blog post and use this information to answer the following questions and attempt the lesson tasks.

Write up a description of the main differences between the two front pages from The Guardian and The Daily Mail, looking at both conventions and how the stories have been presented to the reader.
The main difference between these two papers is that one is a tabloid being the Daily Mail and one is a broadsheet being The Guardian.  The Daily Mail is  initially protecting The Queen as they make out as if she has dragged into the situation  and it wasn't her fault. However The Guardian goes against The Queen  as they have stated 'exploiting the poor.' 

write a paragraph outlining why you think the Guardian created a series of news articles looking at the same issue and how that may reflect the newspapers political ideology and news values.

Using repetition of the same story would make the story appear more urgent to the audience. This would give the audience an in depth understanding of this story.

The Guardian does not move onto other stories as quickly as the Daily Mail as they know that their readers are more likely to want to know more information about stories that will involve their ideologies, and as the Guardian is a left wing newspaper, they may want to focus on the big stories that involve the left wing more than other stories that are not as important. Also as they write more articles on this one subject, it may start to be at the front of their readers minds, and the opinions that they put in the articles could start to become those of the readers as well. This is called the Cultivation Theory. The Guardian  uses a yellow to highlight story over the four different cover pages. This would help the audience to recognise the story.

Look at the Mirror. The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and the Independent online newspaper and consider what you learn about these two publications from their versions of the story and the front page conventions.
Most of the other newspapers didn't really show any bias towards the story, whilst the Guardian and The Daily Mail showed their strong ideologies through the headline that they gave the stories. This is because the other newspapers tend to be less influenced by their political stance, so people may be more likely to read the articles from these non biased newspapers, as they will not be subject to having their opinions changed through the cultivation theory.

Look at the online versions of these stories via Mail Online and The Guardian website. Compare and contrast their coverage. Use the sites to find out as much as you can about the story, so you fully understand it. What other media elements do the two websites provide readers (e.g.: audio or video clips, hyperlinks to other sites or connected stories).
The Guardian and The Daily Mail both have the articles in great detail on their websites, yet they also have videos and interactive links etc. The Guardian continues using the colour yellow theme running through the articles about the Paradise papers, which makes them easy to recognize. The Guardian has covered this story in a lot more detail than the Daily Mail, as it appeals to their left wing audience, whilst the Daily Mail may not have written about it if they didn't have to, but as the story was important, they did write about but with a more right wing stance. 

Look at social media sites and explain how you think they encourage readers to interact with the story.

The stories are linked on a post on social media like twitter which makes the readers more likely to read the articles as they are easily accessible. Because the followers of their media accounts may just scroll through quickly, if they see an article that interests them, they are more likely to read it if it is there as a link, rather than them having to search for it.