Paradise Papers

The Paradise Papers story coverage

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.

The Guardian's front page is full with socialist ideologies using the words "controversial" and "exploiting" in the headline. These negative words show the Queen damaging light connoting that she knew what she was doing. The use of the word "poor" victimises people who don't put their money offshore, worsening the image of the Queen. Furthermore, it refers to the socialist ideas recognising with the audience

The Daily Mail front page shows their capitalist ideologies by the use of the word "dragged" to make the Queen seem like the victim in the incident. Additionally, by calling the matter an "offshore tax row", it seems more innocent as though nothing has been done wrong. 

The Guardian's front page will appeal to their audience as the whole page is dominated by the ongoing 'paradise papers' stories. This shows their hard news style. Th plugs at the top of the headline also show this as they are to do with the 'paradise papers' presented in the hard news style with no images or eye catching typography. 

The Daily Mail's front page is not dominated by the 'paradise papers' story. Instead, they focus heavily on both Milly Bobby Brown, "a schoolgirl worth £5mill" and "The ultimate party dress diet" emphasising their soft news approach ensuring the audience is attracted. 

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.

The Guardian focuses on left-wing socialist ideologies therefore their readership will be interested in these types of stories. It shows the negative light on capitalism engaging the reader for numerous days and allowing the audience to have a deeper understanding of the story and how it affects all. They provide hard news for their educated audience, focusing on all details whilst emphasising their left-wing ideology. The yellow colour amongst all the series links them together. The colour yellow represents happiness, freshness, loyalty and optimism, therefore, it contradicts the story as the Guardian focuses on the disloyalty of the celebrities. 

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.

The Daily Telegraph doesn't seem to be very interested in the 'paradise papers' article as it barely features on the front page. Instead it focuses on a recent sex scandal. The Daily Mirror emphasis on the 'paradise papers' is of a slight left wing view calling is a "scandal", proposing blame on those involved focusing on the Queen. However, it also uses plugs to other stories in the paper focusing on football, strictly come dancing and the MP

sex scandal to interest their soft news readers. The Daily Express focuses on the 'paradise papers' from a central view objectively stating what has happened. It also has plugs on a shooting, an alcohol ban and celebrities showing the audience. As its also only 15p this can show the demographics too. The independent online focuses completely on the Queen and her involvement on this.

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).

The guardian online has multiple pages of the paradise papers, all which look like the one above filled with different stories on the different people affected. This shows their left wing ideology emphasising the wrong done by doing so much coverage. Furthermore, the fact that their coverage go over numerous days also shows this disgust of the off-shore accounts and victimises themselves and their readers as though it is a crime specifically against them showing the left wing views.

Whereas the mail online story is limited with much less coverage. This shows their right wing ideology however they can be seen more central by calling the scheme a "tax-dodge" and those affected "controversial". On the article from the mail online there is also videos further explaining the story and its consequences. 

Look at social media sites and explain how you think they encourage readers to interact with the story.

The social media sites use hashtags and links to encourage readers to interact with the story. Social media is something which most people use and check and so by using social media, the paper is reaching younger audiences who will then interact with the story and read about it. It also encourages the papers political ideology on a new generation showing the different interpretations of the same story from the different stances.