The Times CSP

Language

1) The main story on the front cover is about how Scotland wants to stay in the UK, which is revealed by a poll.

2) The main story on the inside of the page is about Muirfield welcoming women golfers joining after a vote. However women can only participate if they are invited to the club.

3) The Times on the front cover mainly planted a lot of text into its newspaper with intermediate to advanced type language. They have also only got central image, which is placed in the middle splits the by lines from the headlines. The headline is placed in the left with bold writing and takes up a big amount of space as it is the lead story.

4) We can see that The Times is made for middle to upper class (wealthy) people as they have topics that are more intellectual,knowledgeable and about the history of the world with lots of information. Also, the price of the newspaper is significantly increased compared to The Daily Mirror's newspaper price. Furthermore, at the top right it says "Best places to live in Britain" this gives off that its exclusively for richer people.

5)The times' political beliefs are about benefiting rich people awho there newspaper costs a lot and doesn't think about the lower class citizens in the UK.

Audience

1)The Times' target audience is aimed at middle to upper class.

2)Their stories appeal to their audience as they have topics which only knowledgeable people who like to be kept up to date about what is happening in the world.

3)Muirfield's story on The Times would most likely interest there readers as they might have gone to there golf club as upper class people are most likely to be able to play their. Also some of those people would want to know if anything is changing.

4) A reader would enjoy The Times as they give information (surveilance) on different topics like the best places in London, some people could relate to some of the social class in the times (personal identity) and people are interested in what's going on around the world/country.

5) Times readers are around 55 years old because people around this age usually have a lot of money and they probably used to read newspapers when they were younger so they are most likely a loyal customer.

Representation

1) They represent Great Britain in the newspaper by talking about the best places in Britain to live for there readers.

2) Gender is shown in The Times through the story about Muirfield as they have now "allowed" women to participate in their golf club but they must be invited in first. This shows males still have dominance as they have to allow women to join there club.

3)The Times makes big companies like Google and channel 4 as very important and represents channel 4 changing it's chief executive as significant.

4) In the transgender story they treat them just like everyone else as they committed a crime which cannot be forgiven. This shows The Times thinks of everyone as equal.

5) The clues that suggest that The Times is more conservative orientated is the headline stating "Scots want to stay in UK"

Industry

1)The people who own The Times are called News UK

2)In 2018 The Times' circulation was 430000 and in 1990 they sold 800000.

3) The Times has reacted to the decline in news papers by: moving to a multi platform landscape and adding a pay wall to get to their content and creating social media strategies.

5)One reason for their being a steep decline in the print industry is because of the growth of the internet, thetc Internet allows people to go online and search recent news easily with a click of a button. Also the advancements in technology allows anyone to be a reporter as everyone can just record any kind of interesting news to record and share to the world in a matter of seconda.