Ownership and Distribution

How we consume our news
Radio
Physical hard copies
Television
Social media platforms
Dedicated apps

Role of the gatekeeper
To control
To manage
To transfer
The gatekeeper controls what news stories go to what newspaper
They decide what information should move to group or individual and what information should not.

Features of a traditional news company
Owned by a large conglomerate
Has many news subsidiaries, often specialising in a specific audience or geographic area
Products available across a range of distribution platforms
Clear political ideology

News Corp
Is a large conglomerate
Has many news subsidiaries, often specialising in a specific audience or geographic area

News Corp own companies in:
television
radio
tech
magazines
branding/advertising
suburban and rural newspapers
books

Their main base of operations are in Australia, they also own assets in the UK (The Sun, The Times) and a few in the US (such as the WSJ and New York Post)
Because News Corp control both ends of the political spectrum and have audiences at all points of the social grade system,  its a very powerful company.

The Sun
The newspaper posts its content on multiple platforms being its newspaper, its website and its social media pages. On Instagram, the content tends to be shortened into sentence long paragraphs sum arising the story whilst the content in the newspaper and website are identical and long in comparison to the social media posts.


The People in charge
News corp- Robert Thomson
Guardian Media Group- David Pemsel
BBC News- Tim Davie
Daily Mail- Jonathan Harmsworth
Trinity Mirror- Simon Fox
ITN- John Hardie
Buzzfeed- Jonah Perreti
The Press Association- Dean Ridings
Reuters- James C. Smith

Press Agency
A press agency is an organisation that gathers news reports and sells them (or images or footage) to subscribing news institutions including papers, websites and broadcasters. Their news is as neutral and unbiased as possible- sticking to the facts. They are not publishers- they just provide information and resources for traditional news companies.
Examples include:
Reuters, Press Association.


Fact file of FOX News

American conservative news cable network. Their subsidiary companies include
  • 20th Century Fox
    • 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
      • Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment (Nordic countries) (joint venture with Paramount Home Media Distribution)
    • Fox Family
    • Fox Stage Productions
    • Fox 2000 Pictures
    • 20th Century Fox Animation
      • Blue Sky Studios
    • Fox Searchlight Pictures
    • Fox Star Studios (India)
    • Zero Day Fox
    • Regency Enterprises (20%)
      • New Regency Productions(80%)
      • Regency Television
    • Fox Studios Australia
    • Boom! Studios (minority stake)
    • Fox Music
    • Fox VFX Lab
    • FoxNext
    • Aftershock Studios 
    • 20th Century Fox World (license to Resort World by Genting Group)
  • Hulu (30%)

They have a political allegiance to the Republican party and have helped with the George W Bush and Donald Trump administrations. 
The audience of FOX tend to be politically conscious right wing Americans.

Locations: Most programs are broadcast from Fox News headquarters in New York City (at 1211 Avenue of the Americas), in its streetside studio on Sixth Avenue in the west wing of Rockefeller Center, sharing its headquarters with sister channel Fox Business Network.

FOX distribute their news on their television channel, their website and their social media pages.

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