Ruth, England

Which part do I read first? Well, let me start by telling you the part that I read last. I leave sport until last because sport is not really that interesting for me. It's a little bit pointless, senseless, so usually I begin with the front page, and I read the newspaper in order, but when I get to the sports page, I give up reading the paper.

Simon, Canada

When I read a newspaper, I usually read the sports section first. Sport is nice light reading, you don't have to think too much and it's fun. Then, when sport is finished, I turnto the more serious stuff like world news and all that kind.

LESSON 3. Talk to an editor.

Ex. 1b.

The staff of a big famous newspaper like, for example, New York Times, has an impressive staff, including countless executive and managing editors, assistant managing editors for news, photography, video, deputy editors, editor overseeing journalistic standards, online edition editors, different sections editors (science, technology, health, arts, music, TV, news, automobiles, culture, foreign news, national news, travel,) digital editors, reporters and columnists, writing for different sections, graphics director, video director.

LESSON 4. MASS MEDIA IN THE UK.

Ex. 2b

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication

Nature is a prominent journal, publishing original research across a wide range of scientific fields.

New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine

Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical and current affairs magazine

HELLO! is a weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories

The Spectator is a weekly British conservative magazine, covering politics and culture

Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine

NME – the New Musical Express, a music weekly published in the UK since March 1952

Ex. 5a, 5b, 5c

Radio

Radio in the United Kingdom is dominated by the BBC, which operates radio stations both in the United Kingdom and abroad. The BBC World Service radio network is broadcast in 33 languages globally. The BBC also operates ten national networks and over 40 local radio stations including services in Welsh in Wales, Gaelic in Scotland and Irish in Northern Ireland.

There are also a lot of commercial local radio stations owned by large radio groups which broadcast to many areas.

There are four main radio channels. BBC Radio 1 broadcasts a mix of new music and entertainment for 15-29 year-olds and provides news, documentaries and advice campaigns for young adults. BBC Radio 2 covers a diverse mix of live pop and rock concerts, comedy, documentaries and religious content. BBC Radio 3 is best known for its classical music performance and programmes dedicated to jazz and world music, as well as speech programmes, documentaries and drama. BBC Radio 4 offers in-depth news and a wide range of drama, comedy and magazine programmes.

Ex. 6a

Television

Television in the United Kingdom is made up of two public broadcasting companies, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Channel Four Television Corporation, and two commercial television companies, ITV Network Ltd and Northern & Shell. They own five most watched nationwide television channels: BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5.

The BBC also operates several television channels abroad. The BBC's international television news service, BBC World News, is broadcast throughout the world on commercial subscription basis over cable and satellite services.

The BBC first began television broadcasts only for London in 1936. BBC Television was closed during World War II but reopened in 1946. ITV (Independent Television) was originally founded in 1955 to provide competition to the BBC. ITV was the country's first commercial television funded by advertisements, and has been the most popular commercial channel through most of its existence. On October 24 2012 all television broadcasts in the United Kingdom went digital.

There are a number of providers, delivering free and subscription services on more than 480 channels throughout the UK: Freesat, Freesat from Sky, Freeview, the Internet, BTVision, Orange, Sky TV, Smallworld, T-Mobile, TalkTalk TV, Vodafone, and others. The providers differ in the number of channels and the services they offer, such as the electronic programme guides (EPGs), video on demand (VOD), or audio and video on demand (AVOD), high-definition television (HDTV) and interactive television via the red button, where TV viewers are active: they send short text messages, make phone calls, vote.

Ex. 6b

BBC One is the Corporation’s primary network, broadcasting comedy and humour, drama, light plays and series, weather and sport, but there are also some interesting documentaries, news, and some children’s programmes. The most popular TV series are EastEnders and Doctor Who.

BBC Two is a mixed-genre channel, which offers more serious programmes covering arts, culture and showing knowledge-building programmes, discussions, adaptations of novels into plays and films, operas and concerts. Its most popular programme at the moment is Top Gear.

Channel 4 got the rights to broadcast popular sporting events, such as cricket and horse racing. In the early 2000s it began reality formats, such as Big Brother. It also shows many US programmes in peak viewing time, for example Friends.

ITV ’s primetime is dominated by soap operas, such as Coronation Street, reality TV programmes, Celebrity Fit Club and Love Island, sports programmes, drama productions and national news.

Channel 5 broadcasts a wide variety of entertainment programmes, such as game shows, imported American drama and reality television, for example Celebrity Big Brother.

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