#the daily telegraph is literally the most right wing newspaper out there

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The Conservative Playbook: Dutton’s Political Strategy

The global conservative stratagem is founded on an appeal to the mediocrity of lazy members of our nations. Their message to the predominantly white voters is that you are just fine the way you are and the changing world is wrong. The conservative playbook: Dutton’s political strategy. On energy in Australia the LNP messaging to the populace is that climate change is too complex to worry about and not an Australian problem at its core. Therefore, they embrace property owners who don’t want their view besmirched by wind farms and value their minority concerns over the value to the community of renewable energy solutions to global warming. Instead, they champion nuclear power as an alternative to the safe and free power offered by wind and solar. This is despite Australia having no existing nuclear industry and the reality that it would take a decade or more to establish a viable reactor and the infrastructure around the sector at enormous cost (hundreds of billions of dollars).

LNP Promises No Nasty Wind Farms For Those Upset About Them

The Coalition’s message to a largely ignorant electorate is – “don’t worry we’ll take care of it for you.” Most Australians have no idea about the transition taking place in our energy sector and the power grid. They hear plenty of negative stuff from the Murdoch owned media group controlling our newspapers and radio networks (The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail, Herald Sun, and 99 radio stations across AM, FM & DAB+). Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp are an organisation with a rabid right wing bias. See Fox News and Sky News Australia as clear examples of this non-objective op/ed fest in action on our airwaves and screens. Fossil fuel interests curry favour via  the campaign donations made to both main political parties in Australia. Their advertising budgets fuel News Corp’s survival as a media organisation. Australia has long been overly influenced by a duopoly of corporate media interests to the detriment of ordinary Australians. The media is now completely dominated by PR, as real investigative journalism disappears. You will never hear any positive messaging regarding renewable energy out of the LNP or the Murdoch press. Despite this Australian home owners have embraced solar power on their rooves in record numbers.

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Dutton’s Nuclear Option Pie In The Sky For Short Term Political Favour

The reality is that the old baseload power requirements of the energy grid are no longer relevant in the 21C. The demise of coal powered stations will not be replaced by a like for like type of energy generation. Gas powered stations are a short term gap filler. Renewable energy generated power is fast taking over the demands of our needs. We need to invest in more large scale batteries and storage technologies for all the free renewable power we generate. Nuclear powered energy is not something that will work with in concert with all of our free renewable generated electricity because it needs to be on all the time. You cannot switch nuclear on and off when the need arises like gas in the short term. Therefore, we would be wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on a type of energy generation not compatible with the transition already well underway. Peter Dutton is putting forward something completely outside of what we require. The business community and the energy sector does not support the nuclear option because they understand what is going on to some degree. The Coalition claims they will build these reactors themselves – this is laughable. Politicians cannot build anything and have been out of the game of actually running businesses and projects for decades. Remember neoliberalism and small government, Peter? Snowy 2.0 is an LNP fast tracked special project and that is literally bogged down in billion dollar delays. It is a good example of a government infrastructure project rushed and stuffed up. Dutton doing the same with nuclear reactor projects could be disastrous. Dutton Telling Australia It Can Stick Its Head In The Sand It is all part of the conservative playbook: Dutton’s political strategy of telling voters what they want to hear in the short term. You can stick your head in the sand and pretend global warming isn’t real. You can keep your unblemished view to keep your property prices tickety-boo. No need for any nasty wind turbines on the horizon. The solution? We will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on nuclear power, an unsuitable and incredibly expensive technology with never ending safety dangers. Australians are not the sharpest tools in the shed. I mean, we end up with asbestos products in the mulch around our parks and in our school yards. ‘She’ll be right mate’ wont cut it when things go Fukushima. But you will have a nice view as long as they didn’t build that reactor in your neighbourhood. They will probably locate them all in Labor electorates, however, just to be on the safe side.

LNP Courting Intolerance & Racism Similarly, the LNP has shifted to the far right to rub affectionately up against the intolerant members of our communities. Those condemning anybody different. Telling the racists and white supremacists its okay to hold onto their toxic beliefs. Dutton is dog whistling up intolerance toward immigrants, indigenous Australians, and the LGBTQI community. The strategy promotes divisiveness over acceptance. Gender identity politics sees a growing split between how men and women view issues within our society. Transgender members of our community are being made lightning rods by conservative forces in their cultural wars. Sky News Australia click baits on the back of inflammatory headlines about trans members seeking equality within our society. Christian fundamentalists want to maintain their Bronze Age dictated ideologies which promote the persecution and shunning of LGBTQI human beings from their schools, businesses, and organisations. The transgender debate is a media beat up, like the youth crime beat up at the state level. The numbers do not add up on either of these topics when multi million populations are taken into consideration. These are designed to inflame and enrage voters disproportionately to the actual statistical facts of what is occurring. The conservative playbook: Dutton’s political strategy. The Inaction Of Coalition Governments The LNP blame everything on Albo despite the fact that they had more than 9 years in office to oversee the economy we have right now. This is par for the course when it comes to Oppositions within the Westminster system. Apportioning blame rightly or wrongly is the name of the game. In reality, the housing crisis comes on the back of inaction by both LNP and Labor in this space for decades. Social housing what is that? That is a state problem. Neoliberalism and the credo – ‘the market is always right!’ This small government economic approach has been with us since Reagan and Thatcher influenced Australia in this direction back in the 1980s. The LNP message is that it is OK that we have the lowest fuel standards among the Western nations. You can keep your diesel beast poisoning our air quality. No worries. The Coalition actually achieve little when in government, they just roll over for their mates in the corporate sphere. Gutting the public service to direct billions of tax payer dollars to their mates in the consultancy sector. Lowering tax rates for the wealthy and looking after their friends is a constant theme underpinning their economic policies. Funny that we get bugger all tax from the gas and mining sectors in comparison to other resource rich nations, like Norway and Qatar. I wonder what that is all about? Jobs for the boys after a stint in parliament, perhaps. The big end of town hardly pays any tax at all, as they leave that to the poor schmucks who pay income tax. Family trusts and tax minimisation schemes are very popular in Oz. We do not tax wealth in this country, in fact we make it much easier for the rich to become exponentially much richer.

Photo by Arthur Ogleznev on Pexels.com Robodebt & The Coalition Robodebt was an ideological attack upon the poorest and most vulnerable members of our population. Many of these ideas come from America, where making poverty an individual failing has been a stratagem for years. Rich equals good, poor equates with bad. This simple credo allows the very wealthy end of town to avoid any responsibility for those suffering from the effects of poverty within our communities. Lowering and flattening tax rates for corporations and billionaires comes on the back of this. Making society into a game of winners and losers is the outcome of this political stratagem. Demonising welfare recipients is the next logical step in this game. Robodebt falsely accused 500, 000 Australians of owing large amounts of money to Centrelink and forced them to pay these funds back. Scott Morrison, Marise Payne, Stuart Robert and Alan Tudge were directly involved in this illegal government program. Some victims of Robodebt killed themselves in despair over being wrongly accused of owing large amounts of money. PwC was involved in the creation of Robodebt via its consultancy work. Kathryn Campbell was the senior bureaucrat running Robodebt for many years. A Royal Commission later found the program to be illegal and knowingly founded on dubious grounds by those at the very top. However, despite this and Robodebt costing tax payers $800 million in a settled class action brought by some of the victims nobody has been criminally prosecuted. This is the way things work in Australia, as hardly any politician or civil servant has been prosecuted for crimes associated with the misuse of their office. Many more pollies have been gaoled for sex crimes committed upon children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_politicians_convicted_of_crimes

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com Campaign Donations Distorting Australian Democracy The allure of power takes careerists into amoral territory where they cross the line. The ridiculous system, we currently have, where influence can be bought via campaign donations to political parties sets us up for corruption and minority control of our democracy. The wealthy and corporate players have much louder voices within our democratic system of government. Why don’t we do something about this? We could end these donations tomorrow and replace it with tax payer funded electioneering. The two main political parties enjoy their close contact with power via the wealthy and will not willingly give it up. The lobbying by big business and vested interests increases day by day to the detriment of the majority of Australians. Your voice and mine are made much smaller as a result of the private funding of the political process in Australia. Conservative Smoke Screens & Identity Politics The continuing promotion of identity politics by conservative forces here and globally will see greater division between populations. Dutton beats the drum over the Voice and ensures its failure to achieve constitutional recognition. Racism rises in Australia during this period and since the vote. Dutton makes a disproportionate hoo-ha about a tiny number of refugees who had completed their prison sentences for crimes being released into the community via a High Court ruling. Another beat up designed to make ordinary Australians feel unsafe. The Coalition has been dragging its feet over Australia’s response to climate change and the energy transition for decades. Dutton’s championing of property owner’s impacted by new power line pathways for the energy grid and potential wind farms is more head in the sand stuff. Further to this is the pie in the sky idea about Oz going nuclear – this is already adversely impacting investment for renewables by creating uncertainty about future government energy policies. Dutton is a wrecker for his short term political ambitions. The LNP either do not understand the energy transition happening in terms of its technical requirements for the mix or are wilfully delaying it for their own interests and that of the fossil fuel industry. Gas has been embraced by both political parties as a transitional energy source but the question remains how long our dependency on it will last. The gas sector continues to pay bugger all tax despite the massive exports they sell internationally from mining our resources. Multinational corporations derive hundreds of billions and we get a few paltry million from dysfunctional taxes like the PRRT. “Australians will have often heard how our gas industry has been booming over the past 10 years, generating great wealth and supposedly leading our economy. Remember former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison calling for a “gas-led recovery”. Australians might be less aware of just how little gas companies – who are making massive profits off the back of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – pay in tax.” - (https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/yes-the-government-collects-more-money-from-hecs-than-it-does-from-the-petroleum-resource-rent-tax/)

Who Are You Going To Believe? Too many Australians do not question the agenda behind those media outlets feeding them news. We have been victims of duopolies for too long. A lack of real choice, apart from the ABC, means corporate media in Australia singing from the same song sheet. Even the ABC has become cowed of late, after many years of false accusations of bias by the LNP. Many journalists will not criticise News Corp’s newspapers and programs because they may want a well paid job with that major organisation in the near future. Recently, the ABC has been parroting News Corp slants on stories and so we get a Greek chorus of amplified and repetitive voices all saying the same thing. Everything has moved to the right in Australia and Dutton’s federal Liberals are ever closer to the far right. Telling lies to the Australian people and beating up social anxieties for political favour is the new order of the day.   Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump. ©HouseTherapy Read the full article

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The most offensively unrealistic part of good omens apart from the fact that the angel and demon gays never kissed is that aziraphale likes to do the crosswords in the daily telegraph....like it genuinely makes me angry that it's even SUGGESTED that a.z. "fuck my job let's start a revolution against head office with my husband" fell would ever go within ten feet of the affectionately named Torygraph let alone pay money to READ the fucking thing.....they did him so dirty

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‘Well, at least we’re not America’ is a common phrase said by most people when political/racism issues or crises occur in UK. A phrase I am coming to discover is telling of how well the propaganda machines in our country work. The UK is wayyy more dysfunctional than America and allow me to detail but the surface level of known issues in our political sphere.

1. U.K. media ecosystem is… corrupt. Seriously, the older I get the more realise how not too dissimilar our media is to North Korea’s, except our media doesn’t work for the state primarily and will turn on it if it benefits them. You can look at how our media recently attacked Boris Johnson and then started pushing out puff pieces when he won a landslide in our local election for perfect proof

We’ve had phone hacking scandals, invasions of privacy, been accused of Nazi like language by the UN, have a state owned media outlet with political leaders heading it, anti-vaccine and now anti-lockdown narratives being pushed forward, think tanks owned by prominent right wing politicians and advisors being treated as unbiased think tanks, and more.

Our media landscape is predominately owned by 5 people. Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox News) being one of the most prominent and also the closest to government.

The media in the UK is basically an attack dog for politics. It’s often been said no government will ever get into power without Rupert Murdoch on side.

It gets significantly worse when you begin to discover many prominent journalists are friends, god parents, spouses, and family members to our political elite. Heck, Boris Johnson (our Prime Minister) was originally a journalist for the spectator and telegraph (and an appalling one at that).

2. our police are well… corrupt. They’ve been involved in murdering civilians, brutally killing protestors and lying about killing them, feeding lies to the press about officers being hurt by protestors, assaulting journalists, and are involved in numerous conspiracies, and coincidentally were the only public service that didn’t receive defunding during and after thatcher’s era.

The most recent conspiracy involves the media too. A private detective called Daniel Morgan was suspect to have been murdered by two police officers with axes, who were originally investigating the crime, after he started investigating corruption in the police force. This case happened in the 90s and is now resurging after renewed interest. Strangely enough, the case Morgan was investigating later became known as the Phone Hacking scandal in the early 2000s.

Essentially the phone hacking scandal was the reveal that newspapers were hacking phones, wiretapping houses, and paying or blackmailing police officers to give them information about criminal cases. During this scandal it was also revealed newspapers were hiring PIs. More specifically the firm that Morgan worked for and even more specifically the suspected murderers who were fired from the police forces and were hired by Morgan’s old PI firm. You couldn’t make this up.

3. this is gonna be a running theme, but our politicians… corrupt. In a slew of scandals over decades, our politicians have been revealed to spend their work expenses on personal expenses (one politician bought a draw bridge for their manor, and many used them to buy second homes in London before selling them off at a profit during a housing crises), they accept other ‘jobs’ for private businesses (essentially a politician is payed thousands for a couple hours in an ‘advisory’ position), they’ve used tax havens (David Cameron, one of our prior PMs, is the most prominent example), they’ve lobbied after leaving their post (essentially they’re paid a lot of money to push for legislation changes that will profit a company which is quite easy to do when you have political connections, yet again David Cameron is a prominent example), and in the most recent disgusting display I present to you: the ‘my little crony’ model. A model that visually shows you the corruption in our pandemic expenditure.

https://www.sophie-e-hill.com/post/my-little-crony/

During the pandemic, our government bypassed competition laws to directly award contracts for PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), and test and trace. 25% of these contracts at minimum have since been deemed as questionable. They were awarded to businesses owned by politicians, politician’s family members, neighbours, friends, and political donors. Dyson was even revealed to have directly messaged Boris Johnson to change how taxes work so he could provide profitable ventilators when we were desperately short (which is worse when you consider Dyson didn’t deliver a single ventilator despite these changes). That’s not even an isolated story. There is a backlog of stories of strange and not suited businesses not providing PPE, not providing useable PPE, and being payed to make PPE at inflated costs. We’ve had sweet wrapper makers, jewellers, pubs, and a finance company that was only set up weeks before the contract being given these essential jobs in making and delivering PPE. The amount of money spent on these contracts is not yet fully known because documentation hasn’t been published fully, which is unlawful according to our Supreme Court’s findings.

In the pandemic we spent 37 billion on our test and trace app. The app was a failure and still is. It doesn’t contact people, a lot of data was lost because they were using an outdated Excel program to store data (which it didn’t store because Excel is not designed for that amount of data and severely outdated), and a lot people haven’t downloaded it because of trust issues caused by poor communication and initially designing the app to store data in a centralised location instead of in a means where the data can’t be accessed at a later date (as almost every other country did for trust reasons).

Now, 37 billion pounds is a very abstract number. Many don’t fully understand how much money that really is. Well, it could nationalise our entire electric grid in the UK. It’s 10% of the amount needed to end world hunger. It could end our housing crisis in the UK. and it was spent on an app that doesn’t work! Not to mention, the leader of test and trace is now being rumoured to be appointed the head of our national health service…

Heck, our PM was paid by one of his political donors to refurbish his temporary flat in Number 10 (our version of the White House). He spent £200,000 whilst he claimed our entire country didn’t have enough money to feed poor children during the pandemic. And even after he lost two fights with a footballer over the issue (yes, you heard that right), our government contracted a private company that provided inadequate amounts of weekly food. Below isn’t even the worst example.

(Note this a contrast between the amount you could actually buy with money allocated by the government and the amount given by the private companies hired by the government. They took may as well have literally have took candy from a baby.)

Summary: the U.K. is worse than the US exactly because the people of our nation and kingdom don’t see the ridiculousness and corruption that takes place daily and historically.

We’ve had governments spying on trade unions and activists, we’ve had kids being brutalised by police officers because they attended or were thought to have attended a protest, we have a bill that now is trying to ban protest, we have a media ecosystem so disgustingly inadequate they don’t hold government to account, and we have politicians who claim they could live off minuscule amounts provided by the state to the poor and disabled whilst gourging on state paid meals at fancy restaurants where they spend more than that minuscule amount in a couple hours.

There’s so much wrong with my nation and kingdom, I honestly don’t have enough words nor the ability to accurately articulate how disgustingly corrupt it is. We are not the United Kingdom, we are the Corrupt Kingdom. I could go on and fucking on about how unjust, untruthful, and immoral my nation is. I don’t like that, but I also am not going to be patriotic about a nation that kills the poor and disabled by not providing support, allowing a virus to ravage our society by not putting the needs many before the needs of the few, and who claims we can’t spend money on society whilst spending lucrative amounts on idiotic selfish things.

Further reading/references:

(this is my blog, I haven’t posted here in a while)

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People Make Glasgow

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“Cities are never random.   No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.” Neil Shusterman

Research the Narrative

In your blog/workbook, research the various tabloids and broadsheets available in the UK.

Consider the role of the picture editor and take note of your findings.

Look more closely at The Guardian and comment on the quality of the images you see there.

Use this information to form the basis of your approach to this project.

There will be further tasks and support in your Contextual Photography class.

Tell the Story

The client is The Guardian newspaper.

An editorial piece has been commissioned to explore Glasgow’s most important resource, which is its people.

The picture editor requires a series of images that represents the energy of the city through its people.

To reflect Glasgow’s gritty past the picture editor requires the images to be in black and white.

Edit and refine

Edit the shoot to a final 100 editing workshop. (date to be confirmed)

Contact sheets. Black and white conversion, selecting,

Keywording and Captioning.

Consider the many different ways your images can be rendered in black and white.

Editing tasks to be completed in Professional Practice class.

Present series of images on one A3 300ppi canvas, upload to MyCity.

People Make Glasgow Research

Types of newspaper

Newspaper front pages from just before the May 2015 General Election

The content and layout of each newspaper reflect its target readership. The top 10 best selling UK newspapers can be divided into two categories: Image led and Text led

Image led: Tabloids

Tabloids are image led, 'popular' newspapers and can be subdivided into two groups: 'red tops' and 'middle market' dailies.

The 'red tops' are The Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Star and are so-called because they have red mastheads.

The masthead is the large font title at the top of a newspaper front page containing the newspaper's title.

The 'red tops' report on politics and international news but tend to include more celebrity gossip and scandal.

They write short stories using simple language and they have more pictures than other newspapers.

The 'middle market' dailies are the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.

The description 'middle market' refers to the target readership of these newspapers, which is somewhere between the 'red tops' and the 'broadsheets'.

Tabloids: "Red Tops"

Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid "red top" newspaper founded in 1903. Currently owned by the Trinity Mirror Group, twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is still how the paper is often referred to. The newspaper has a decidedly left-wing slant, and has consistently endorsed the Labour Party over the years. On 4 May 2010, the newspaper printed a picture of Conservative Leader David Cameron with a giant red cross through his face. The headline read "How to stop him" in reference to the general election two days later, thus confirming the Daily Mirror's Labour allegiance.

Type: tabloid

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Left-Wing, Pro-Labour

Circulation: 1,172,785 (April 2011)

Daily Star

The Daily Star is a daily tabloid "red top" newspaper first published in 1978. The paper was launched from Manchester and initially circulated only in the North and Midlands. It was conceived by the then-owners of Express Newspapers, Trafalgar House, to take on the strength of the Daily Mirror and Sun in the north. The Daily Star is owned by Express Newspapers and predominately focuses on stories largely revolving around celebrities, sport, and news and gossip about popular television programmes, such as soap operas and reality TV shows. Unlike most national newspapers, the Daily Star has limited articles on politics and has rarely shown clear support for any specific party or leader; though in the run-up to the 2010 general election the newspaper printed several articles which hinted that it wanted to see Labour and Gordon Brown voted out of power. The paper often gives positive coverage to the anti-Islamic English Defence League.

Type: tabloid

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Right-Wing, Pro-Conservative

Circulation: 692,157 (April 2011)

The Sun

The Sun is a daily national "red top" tabloid newspaper and the biggest-selling newspaper in the UK. Famous for its "Page 3" girls and catchy banner headlines, it is published by News Group Newspapers of News International, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. While throwing it's considerable mass influence behind Tony Blair's New Labour, politically, the paper's stance was less clear under Prime Minister Gordon Brown with numerous editorials critical of Brown's policies and often more supportive of those of then Conservative leader David Cameron. On election day (6 May 2010), The Sun urged its readers to vote for David Cameron's "modern and positive" Conservatives in order to save Britain from "disaster".

Type: tabloid

Paywall: Yes

Political Leanings: Populist, Right-Wing

Circulation: 2,783,110 (April 2011)

Tabloids: "Mid-Market"

Daily Express

The Daily Express is a British daily middle market tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1900 it is the flagship title of Express Newspapers and is currently owned by Richard Desmond. With the exception of the 2001 general election, when it backed the Labour Party, the newspaper has declared its support for the Conservative Party at every general election since World War II. The paper is also a strong critic of Britain's membership of the European Union.

Type: midmarket

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Right-Wing, Pro-Conservative, Eurosceptic

Circulation: 635,576 (April 2011)

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British, daily middle market tabloid newspaper. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. It is currently owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust plc. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly-literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks". It was the first British paper to sell a million copies a day. It was, from the outset, a newspaper pitched at women and is still the only British newspaper whose readership is more than 50% female. Politically the Daily Mail has a conservative slant. Its frequently sensationalist, conservatively biased headlines often provoke a strong reaction amongst the liberal leaning blogosphere who sarcastically label it the "Daily Fail". As of May 2011 its online version is the most popular newspaper web site in the UK with around 64 million unique visitors for the month.

Type: midmarket

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Right-Wing, Pro-Conservative, Eurosceptic

Circulation: 2,100,300 (April 2011)

Broadsheets

Text led: Broadsheets

Broadsheets are text led, 'quality' newspapers. The top broadsheets are The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian.

The 'broadsheets' have a higher news content than the 'red tops', cost more to buy and have a lower circulation. The style of writing differs from tabloids with longer sentences and paragraphs, and more articles offering in-depth analysis.

Tabloids and broadsheets produce Sunday editions.

These tend to have supplements - additional sections - with a more specialised focus which can include magazines on culture, lifestyle and finance.

Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations. The FT is owned by Pearson PLC.

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: Yes

Political Leanings: Economic Liberalism

I Newspaper

i is a British newspaper published by Independent Print, owned by Alexander Lebedev, which also publishes The Independent. The newspaper, which is aimed at "readers and lapsed readers" of all ages, and commuters with limited time, costs 20 pence, and was launched on 26 October 2010. The newspaper contains "matrixes" for news, business and sports — small paragraphs of information which are expanded upon in full articles further on in the paper. The title also includes a features section titled iQ, and a television guide. The managing director of The Independent stated several days before the newspaper went into print that the publication is designed for people who do not have much time to read a newspaper. On 20 April 2011, editor Simon Kelner announced that a Saturday edition of i will be published, starting from 7 May 2011 and costing 30 pence.

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Centre-Left, Liberal

Circulation: 161,151 (April 2011)

The Daily Telegraph

Established in 1855 and currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, the Daily Telegraph adopts a traditionalist, centre-right political orientation. The best-selling quality press title, it consistently backs the Conservative Party in UK elections (hence the nickname Torygraph). The website was launched, under the name electronic telegraph at midday on 15 November 1994, making it Europe's first daily web-based newspaper.

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Centre-Right, Pro-Conservative

Circulation: 639,578 (April 2011)

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian (founded 1821), is a British national daily newspaper in Berliner format. Sister papers include The Observer (UK Sunday paper) and The Guardian Weekly (distributed internationally), as well as a large web presence. It is now owned by the Scott Trust, via the Guardian Media Group. The paper identifies with centre-left liberalism and its readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion. The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing opinions has led to the use of the epithet "Guardian reader" as a label for people holding such views. Financially, the Guardian has consistently made large losses in recent years despite the popularity of its online version.

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Centre-Left, Liberal

Circulation: 263,907 (April 2011)

The Independent

The Independent is national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned since 2010 by the former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers. The Indy has become known for its unorthodox and campaigning front pages, which frequently rely on bold images, graphics or lists rather than traditional headlines and written news content. The Independent is regarded as leaning to the left politically, making it primarily a competitor to The Guardian, even though it still features some conservative columnists and tends to take a classical liberal, pro-market, stance on economic issues.

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Centre-Left, Liberal

Circulation: 180,743 (April 2011)

The Observer

The Observer is a British broadsheet Sunday newspaper. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. Founded in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: No

Political Leanings: Centre-Left, Liberal

Circulation: 302,975 (April 2010)

The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, published by Times Newspapers Ltd. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded independently and came under common ownership only in 1966. Rupert Murdoch's News International acquired the papers in 1981. While its sister paper, The Times, holds a substantially smaller circulation than the largest-circulation British quality daily, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times occupies a dominant position in the quality Sunday market. It maintains the larger broadsheet format and has said that it will continue to do so. The Sunday Times is also well known for publication of its annual "Rich List".

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: Yes

Political Leanings: Centre-Right, Moderately Conservative

Circulation: 1,018,215 (April 2011)

The Times

Perhaps the most famous of Britain's quality newspapers, The Times is a daily national newspaper published in London since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International, owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch. Though traditionally a moderately centre-right newspaper and a supporter of the Conservatives, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. For the 2010 general election, however, the newspaper declared its support for the Tories once again. The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to tabloid size in 2004 partly in an attempt to appeal to younger readers and partly to appeal to commuters using public transport. An American edition has been published since 6 June 2006. The online version has been behind a paywall since July 2010.

Type: broadsheet

Paywall: Yes

Political Leanings: Centre-Right, Moderately Conservative

Circulation: 449,809 (April 2011)

Financial Times (FT)

The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper owned by Pearson LLC. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is New York City-based Wall Street Journal. Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, the FT specialises in UK and international business and financial news. Printed as a broadsheet on distinctive light salmon paper, the FT is the only paper in the UK providing full daily reports on the London Stock Exchange and world markets. With a significant number of foreign correspondents it also provides quality global news coverage. The Financial Times declared its support for Labour as early as the 1992 general election, when Neil Kinnock was attempting for the second time to return Labour to government for the first time since they had been ousted from power in 1979. For the 2010 general election, however, the Financial Times supported the Conservatives on balance, despite criticising them.

Type: broadsheet, financial

Paywall: Partial

Political Leanings: Social Liberalism, Pro-EU

Circulation: 372,076 (April 2011)

Source: https://www.thepaperboy.com/uk/uk-newspaper-guide.cfm

Role of picture editor

Photo editors are responsible for the look of final photographs to be published in a book or periodical or that appear digitally. Some photo editors also work with video. They make photo and video assignments, judge and alter pictures and videos to meet assignment needs, and make sure all deadlines are met. They work for publishers, advertising agencies, photo and video stock agencies, greeting card companies, and any employer that relies heavily on visual images to sell its products or services. Photo editors comprise a small percentage of the 50,070 photographers employed in the United States. Photo editors are also known as picture editors, multimedia editors, and directors of photography.

Source: https://www.vault.com/industries-professions/professions/p/photo-editors

Photo editors oversee the photography that appears in a magazine, primarily working as a point person for communicating with and hiring photographers. Photo editors also work for newspapers and other publications that feature photography. But the job of a photo editor is more important than meets the eye because what they do is subliminal.

A photo editor's real job is to create a full, rich experience for the reader or customer—to enhance the customer experience visually. It's no different than the world of the culinary arts: the best chefs will tell you that "you eat with your eyes first."

A common misconception about photo editors is that they act as photographers. Unlike magazine editors, who may often write for a magazine, photo editors very rarely take pictures for their magazines.

Instead, photo editors conceive of the visuals. What that means is that they hash out ideas with editors about what photos will be used and how they will complement the text they'll accompany. Then they go about hiring the right photographer for the job.

But it doesn't end there. The job of a photo editor also includes allocating and coordinating assignments and approving images. They are also tasked with selecting, editing, and positioning photos, as well as negotiating fees and rights to photos and obtaining permission to shoot photography. For example, if a photoshoot were to take place in Strawberry Fields in New York's Central Park, it would be the job of the photo editor to get permission from the VPs at Central Park.

The Skills You'll Need

Although photo editors aren’t actually shooting the pictures, they need to know everything there is to know about photography. They must have a good business sense (to negotiate contracts), and it's imperative that they have extensive contacts within the industry. That's because they need to know what kind of photographer will be the best one for each particular shoot.

For example, if the shoot calls for various photographs of a family, that will likely require a family portrait photographer which is quite different than a beauty shoot of a consumer product like shampoo. A consumer product shot is very different than a high-fashion photograph that will appear next to a story about Chanel. Also, while you may know the best fashion photographer in the business, they may be booked on another assignment so you need a big arsenal of names to draw upon.

Source: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/photo-editor-2316058

The Guardian – comments on quality of images

High quality, inviting further investigation, indicative of content, well shot and lit, good composition, good use of composite images, emotive portraits, clear messaging where text shown in shot.

Contact Sheets from Shoot

Some of the images from the shoot edited