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.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. Look at social media sites and explain how you think they encourage readers to interact with the story.



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