Questions about the Gatekeeping poster

What’s on the Gatekeeping poster?

A 5-row table: Level · What decides. Levels at which selection happens. Individual — The reporter's judgement and beat; Routines — Deadlines, formats, source habits; Organisation — Ownership, resources, editorial line; Institutional — Advertisers, regulators, rivals; Social system — Ideology and prevailing norms. Platforms did not remove gates; they moved them into ranking systems that are less visible and far less accountable.

Who is the Gatekeeping poster for?

Gatekeeping belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning media theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Gatekeeping poster?

When explaining why a story never appeared, and what decided that. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Gatekeeping belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Gatekeeping?

Agenda-Setting, Cultivation and Encoding & Decoding sit alongside Gatekeeping in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Agenda-SettingCultivationEncoding & Decoding

Is the Gatekeeping poster free to download and print?

Yes. Gatekeeping downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Gatekeeping poster print at?

Gatekeeping is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Gatekeeping loses nothing.Printing guide