Newspapers are the one of the most important forms of media to communicate information to individuals or organisations in all countries, but similar newspapers may have some different points in different countries. The main purpose of this report is to compare the quality newspapers between the United Kingdom and China to explain the main differences and the report will use four parts of research to achieve this purpose. The first part is a summary to introduce one British quality newspaper that is The Times. The second part will give some details about People’s Daily which is a Chinese quality newspaper. The third part will use some individual opinions to show what the main differences between The Times and People’s Daily are. The final part will be the conclusion to explain what has been learnt from the comparison.
The Times is a British daily quality newspaper published since 1785. After more than 200 years in print it has become one of the most important newspapers in the world. During its history, it has had different owners and now, Rupert Murdoch’s company, News International runs it. Every day, The Times will publish about 40 pages that have some different sections which are the leading articles, the national news, the opinion, the world news, the business news, the register, and the sport and so on. The Time’s main readership comes from business people and functionaries. The Times was a traditional Conservative Party supporter, but has also supported other parties such as Tony Blair’s Labour government in 1997.
People’s Daily is the most important quality newspaper in China. It is published by Central Committee of the Committee Party of China. The main purpose of People’s Daily is to communicate Chinese government policies and decisions, but it does not mean that People’s daily is just a communication of the government. It also reports a large number of national and international news. In fact, nowadays, People’s Daily has different language editions such as English, French, and Spanish and so on. It is the main bridge to connect the Chinese government and Chinese people and is also one of the best ways to let foreign individuals and organizations to learn China. Every day, People’s Daily will publish 24 pages. From page 1 to page 8 are the Committee Party and government news, from page 9 to 15 is the national news, then from page 16 to 20 are leading articles and the opinion, and the last 4 pages are the world news. Functionaries are the main readership of People Daily.
In this part of report, I will explain some of the differences between The Times and People Daily.
First of all, the ownership of these two newspapers is different. The Times is run by Rupert Murdoch’s company but People’s Daily is published by Central Committee of the Committee Party of China. Therefore, The Times can publish all kinds of news that the company feels is interesting but this is impossible for People’s Daily. For example, people never see a gossip column in People’s Daily. Secondly, The Times switched to tabloid size after 2004, but People Daily is always published by broadsheet from its’ founding to now. Thirdly, the sections of newspaper are very different. On the one hand, The Times does not have much information about the administration party or government every day. However, every day, People’s Daily uses 6 pages to publish a lot of news to communicate the daily events of the Chinese central and district governments. On the other hand, The Times has a business section, and people can find a lot of information from it. For example people can see equity prices from The Times but there is not a particular section for business in People’s Daily. People can find some business news, but the amount is less than The Times. At the same time, The Times also has the sports section where people can read many sports news and especially get football information. But, People’s Daily does not report sports news every day, and it just reports sports news in some special time such as the Olympic Games. The next difference it the register. The Times has the section to report registers, but People’s Daily does not have this. Also the employees of these two newspapers are different. The employees of The Times are working for a company, and they are like business people. However, the Employees of People’s Daily are working for a government and they are functionaries. More so, political allegiances must be different. The Times can choose different Political Parties to support, but People’s Daily is a part of one political party. Finally, advertisement is one of the most important ways that The Times receives profit. People can see there are many advertisements in The Times. But there are not many advertisements in People’s Daily, because it has the financial support from the government.
All in all, there are some points that people can learn from above research. Firstly, the political systems are different between the UK and China, so the newspaper industry must have some different structures. In Britain, the main newspaper can be run by individual or company, but in China the main Chinese newspapers are owned by the government. Therefore, the main purpose of The Times and People’s Daily must have different points. The Times’ purpose may be get profit and become more successful, but People’s Daily’s purpose is just to be a window of the government. Secondly, the sections of the newspaper are different. The content of The Times is rich, and people can find lots of different kind of news when they read The Times. But the content of People’s Daily is limited, because it pays more attention to the Chinese politics. Finally, they are both good newspapers for each countries, although they have some different. On the one hand, in the UK people like to read The Times, because they can know much different information from one paper. On the other hand, in China people also like to read People Daily, because the politics situation is different between these two countries. It is very important that the Chinese people know the government information every day.
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