Monday, 6 October 2014

Research Study

Major News Providers:

Broadcast:

  • BBC radio 4
  • BBC news
  • Sky News
  • ITV News
Print:
  • The Times
  • The Guardian
  • The Sun
  • Metro
E-Media:
  • Twitter
  • Guardian
  • Daily Mail
  • BBC News
  • Sky News

Commercial institutions such as The Sun and ITV news present news in a way which would allow them to gain money; The Sun, owned by NewsCorp, charges its audience a fee in order to purchase their newspapers, and ITV news presents adverts to its audiences after/before their news presentations. 

Non- commercial institutions such as the BBC and the Metro, a London based newspaper usually given out near the tube, do not charge their audience for their services as such and they usually tend to present unbiased news stories. The BBC is paid for by a TV license, of which everyone with a TV must have in the UK, that in turn pays for the news and everything that comes with it, so an argument can be made that they are a commercial institution, however they do provide their services based on the fee they receive from their customers for their customers and do not aim to generate profit.

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