Daily Mirror- Audience and Industries

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 Blog tasks: Daily Mirror - Audience and Industries


Work through the following questions to complete your work on the Daily Mirror.

Audience

1) What is the Daily Mirror's audience? List the key statistics here.
 Age 65+ but mainly targeting ABC1C2 readers
2) Why do the Mirror stories on the CSP pages appeal to the Daily Mirror audience?
      
3) Why might a reader enjoy the Daily Mirror? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory to add detail to your answer.
 It has hard and soft news so they will be provided with entertainment plus serious news about serious things.

4) Why are print newspapers generally read by older audiences?
      Due to this society and upgrade in technology

5) How is the inside-page story on our CSP pages constructed to appeal to Daily Mirror readers? Think about text and selection of images.
   


Industries

1) What company owns the Daily Mirror and why are they struggling? 
       Owned by PLC -They have been failing because of growth on the internet and many people just watch on TVs now.

2) Who was the Daily Mirror editor between 2018 and 2024 and what was the Partygate scandal that the Daily Mirror exposed?  
    It was Alison Phillips which was the first female editor on the daily mirror.  

3) What is the Daily Mirror's circulation in 2023? How many papers did the Daily Mirror used to sell back in the 1990s?
   Its not the same the amount has massively decreased  because of how it has became less popular due to many people not buying newspapers anymore due to new technology. 

4) How has the Daily Mirror reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet?
  They have created a online website mirror.co.uk website and social media accounts.
  They also produce online context for free!

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.

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