News story (RE)presentations

 BIG NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS IN THE NEWS

Create a timeline and description of the following events that took place 2017-2020 so that you understand the contexts around them. It would really help you if you found front covers from the main papers (broadsheet, mid and tabloids) Mediation, Construction, Bias, Selection, Omission Stereotypes and Representation add news values. 

• Title
• Context (background, how it came about, triggers, culture etc)
• Date and time of story/stories breaking
• What happened? Crucial dates, who was involved
• Analysis of front page stories and how they represented the issues you are investigating
• Test your audience

Lockdown Good News

Find a selection of top memes, programmes streamed, watched, tik toks, zoom quizzes, top ten lists everywhere, heartwarming community stories. Captain Tom! Look through what was shared on social media. (Jack)

BREXIT (Ruby)– When did David Cameron announce referendum? Why did he do this? Who were the leavers/remainers? Analyse front pages of Brexit result https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2016/jun/25/brexit-front-pages-in-pictures.

UK POLITICS - Lauren

·         After Cameron resigned who was running for the leadership?

·         When was May chosen as leader of the Conservative party? When was Boris?

·         General Election result and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity.

ROYALS (Tiffanie) Engagements, Queen’s 90^th, babies, Meghan and Harry 

TERRORISM and HATRED (Codi)

·         Westminster Bridge,         London Bridge

·         Borough,     Finsbury Park mosque,     Manchester ,   Jo Cox

SYRIAN WAR - (Kira) 

·         Brief summary, still ongoing, huge humanitarian issues, refugees

SPECIFIC UK ISSUES

·         Grenfell tower – what issues did this event highlight? Billy

·         Windrush scandal - Isaiah

·         NHS – doctor’s strikes, worry over privatisation, waiting times, COVID Millie

·         Charlie Gard Jamie

·        Immigration - George

YOUTH AGGRESSION – Acid attacks and spate of stabbings Tom

BIDEN ELECTION – Lead up and Reaction Amelia

#METOO CAMPAIGN Eloise

BLM - George Floyd and before Bish

Dominic Cummings Isabel

CULTURAL TRENDS OF 2019-2020 (and how other media has influenced a product) Spider diagram, Moodboard whatever you fancy to get an idea of the zeitgeist (look it up). Sophie

·         Films,   Tv programmes,  Music,  Video games and songs that became famous again,    Youtube, memes, twitter storms, Tik Tok

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