Theresa May wins a confidence vote among UK Conservative MPs. The document instructs analyzing the front pages of UK newspapers like the Guardian, Daily Mail, Times, Sun, and Telegraph on their representation of this news event. It tasks taking screenshots of how the story is reported on each newspaper's website and social media, and analyzing at least 3 audience comments from each site to understand different perspectives. Key newspapers and their websites/social media links are provided to research audience reactions and continue analyzing the evolving story.

1. Newspaper Task
Dec 13, 18: Theresa May wins ballot

2. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT YOU DO THIS TODAY
– THE CONTENT WILL BE GONE TOMORROW!

3. List of newspapers
• Guardian
• Daily Mail
• The Times
• The Sun
• The Daily Telegraph

4. Task 1
Analyse the front covers – annotate around them
(conventions, your thoughts, media language, representation, the
language/tone used, how target audience addressed, political affliation etc)

10. Task 2
*MUST BE TODAY
Look at each of the newspaper’s WEBSITES and SOCIAL MEDIA
Take SCREEN SHOTS and/or SCREEN RECORDINGS…
You are looking at how the news is being reported on their website – how is it similar and different to
the printed front cover? Does the newspaper allow audience participation?
Then, record and analyse the at least 3 audience comments (their participation) on their websites and
social media (3 tweets + 3 facebook comments) – what are they saying? Why do you think this is?

11. At minimum:
• Guardian
• Daily Mail
Optional extension:
• The Sun
• The Times
• The Daily Telegraph
Screen shot the websites/social media on following slides and save securely
as we’ll come back to this!

12. The newspaper’s websites
Guardian
Website: https://www.theguardian.com/uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/guardian?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/
Link to the story: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/dec/12/tory-mps-trigger-vote-of-no-confidence-in-may-amid-brexit-uncertainty-
politics-live
Daily Mail
Website: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MailOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DailyMail/
Link to story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6490985/Theresa-heads-Brussels-TODAY-ten-minutes-pitch-new-Brexit-deal.html
Others:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/12/11/theresa-may-face-no-confidence-vote-owen-paterson-adds-
name/?fbclid=IwAR2IvTdtuXj5GUJXwGRH9CrKoUyQQ4t8Yak3oSmdSfVkkNLvkAGrVwsXg4E
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/12/12/theresa-may-no-confidence-vote-result-conservative-
leadership/?fbclid=IwAR2pQmJgFahlIov1eydqMMBnYxuvS8oy1-PQgOXt-4a5iDyMdfGAxYstSiY

13. Searching audience comments
• Look at the story on social media by just searching the topic – more
comments will be on by the end of the day…..
• https://twitter.com/hashtag/theresamay?lang=en
• https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=theresa%20may&epa=SE
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