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Monday 31 October 2011
The rise and rise of USC
A Citizen Journalist is private individuals generating news.
An example of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’ is Rodney King, an African-American, who was in a high speed chase, and the officers had surrounded him, tasering him and beaten with clubs. This event was recorded by an onlooker from his apartment. This video was shown on the news, and became a viral. The event led to six days of rioting, 53 people died nd 4000 people injured badly.
Formats for participation that are no offered by news organisations are:
• Message boards
• Chatrooms
• Q&A
• Polls
• Blogs
• UGC (social networking)
Professionally shot footage is hard hitting and emotive. This is created by high quality technology and used in many news reports. First hand footage is raw and unpromising, but with bad quality and hand held shots.
A gatekeeper is someone that controls access to something. For example an editor is a gatekeeper as it controls what is said and published.” provides an opportunity for independent, often minority and niche views and news to reach a wide audience.”
The role of a gatekeeper has changed as there is more UGC happening creating a more raw and unprofessional approach to showing news.
One of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC, could be that many people are providing everyone with the news via YouTube, social networking, where the journalist will be late in providing it to the nation as they already have seen it.
Is reality becoming more real? The rise and rise of UGC
Sara Mills explores the rise of the citizen journalist and considers the impact of user-generated content on news stories, the news agenda, and the role of the professionals.
Once, it was all quite simple…the big institutions created the news and broadcast it to a variously passive and receptive audience. Now new technologies mean that the audience are no longer passive receivers of news. The audience have become ‘users’ and the users have become publishers. Audiences now create their own content. We are in the era of user generated content (UGC) where the old divide between institution and audience is being eroded.
Key to this change has been the development of new technologies such as video phones and the growth of the internet and user-dominated sites. Both who makes the news and what makes the news have been radically altered by this growth of media technologies and the rise of the ‘citizen journalist’.
We first felt the effects of the new technologies way back in 1991. Video cameras had become more common and more people could afford them…unfortunately for four Los Angeles police officers! Having caught Rodney King, an African-American, after a high speed chase, the officers surrounded him, tasered him and beat him with clubs. The event was filmed by an onlooker from his apartment window. The home-video footage made prime-time news and became an international media sensation, and a focus for complaints about police racism towards African-Americans. Four officers were charged with assault and use of excessive force, but in 1992 they were acquitted of the charges. This acquittal, in the face of the video footage which clearly showed the beatings, sparked huge civil unrest. There were six days of riots, 53 people died, and around 4000 people were injured. The costs of the damage, looting and clear-up came in at up to a billion dollars. If George Holliday hadn’t been looking out of his apartment window and made a grab for his video camera at the time Rodney King was apprehended, none of this would have happened. King’s beating would be just another hidden incident with no consequences. The film footage can be still be viewed. Try looking on YouTube under ‘What started the LA riots.’ But be warned – it makes for very uncomfortable viewing, and even today, it is easy to see why this minute and half of blurry, poor-quality film had such a huge impact.
This was one of the first examples of the news being generated by ‘ordinary people,’ now commonly known as ‘citizen journalists’, ‘grassroots journalists’, or even ‘accidental journalists’. As technology improved over the years, incidents of this kind have become more and more common. Millions of people have constant access to filming capability through their mobiles, and footage can be uploaded and rapidly distributed on the internet. The power to make and break news has moved beyond the traditional news institutions.
It is not only in providing footage for the news that citizen journalists have come to the forefront. UGC now plays a huge role in many aspects of the media. Most news organisations include formats for participation: message boards, chat rooms, Q&A, polls, have your says, and blogs with comments enabled. Social media sites are also built around UGC as seen in the four biggest social networking sites: Bebo, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook. People also turn to UGC sites to access news: Wikipedia news, Google news and YouTube score highly in terms of where people go to get their news.
The natural disaster of the Asian Tsunami on December 26th 2004 was another turning point for UGC. Much of the early footage of events was provided from citizen journalists, or ‘accidental journalists,’ providing on-the-spot witness accounts of events as they unfolded. Tourists who would otherwise have been happily filming holiday moments were suddenly recording one of the worst natural disasters in recent times. In addition, in the days after the disaster, social networking sites provided witness accounts for a world-wide audience, helped survivors and family members get in touch and acted as a forum all those involved to share their experiences.
A second terrible event, the London bombings on July 5th 2005, provided another opportunity for citizen journalists to influence the mainstream news agenda. No one was closer to events than those caught up in the bombings, and the footage they provided from their mobile phones was raw and uncompromising. This first-hand view, rather than professionally shot footage from behind police lines, is often more hard-hitting and emotive. An audience used to relatively unmediated reality through the prevalence of reality TV can now see similarly unmediated footage on the news.
The desire for everyone to tell their own story and have their own moment of fame may explain the huge popularity of Facebook, MySpace and other such sites It also had a more negative outcome in the package of writings, photos and video footage that 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate at Virginia Tech, mailed into NBC News. Between his first attack, when he shot two people, he sent the package from a local post office, before going on to kill a further 30 people. In his so-called ‘manifesto’ Cho showed his paranoia and obsession, likening himself to Jesus Christ. The reporting of the terrible events at Virginia Tech that day was also affected by citizen journalism, and the footage that student Jamal Albarghouti shot on his mobile phone video camera. Rather than concentrate on saving his own life, he recorded events from his position lying on the ground near the firing. The footage, available on YouTube and CNN brought events home to a worldwide audience. We now expect passers by, witnesses, or even victims, to whip out their camera phones and record events, an instinct almost as powerful as that to save their own or others’ lives. Perhaps the news now seems old-fashioned and somehow staged if it lacks the raw, grainy low-quality footage provided by citizen journalists.
Twitter and flickr came to the forefront during the Mumbai bombings in India in late November 2008. As bombs exploded across the city, the world’s media got up-to date with events through reports on Twitter and Flickr. There were questions raised, however, that by broadcasting their tweets, people may have been putting their own and others’ lives at risk.
It was on Twitter again that the story of the Hudson River plane crash on January 15th 2009 was broken to the world. With a dramatic picture of a plane half sinking in the river, and passengers crowded on the wing awaiting rescue Janis Krun tweeted:
There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.
The picture is still available on Twitpic, under ‘Janis Krun’s tweet.’ While national news organisations quickly swung into action, it was the citizen journalist, empowered by social networking sites, that first broke the story.
So who’s keeping the gate?
Are the gatekeepers still fulfilling their old function of deciding what is and isn’t news, and what will and won’t be broadcast? In some ways, yes. You can send in as much UGC to the major news organisations as you want, with no guarantee that any of it will ever be aired. In fact, last year a BBC spokesperson reported that a large proportion of photos sent in to the news unit were of kittens. While this may represent the interest of the audience, or users, it still doesn’t turn the fact that your kitten is really cute into ‘news.’
The way around the gatekeepers is with the independent media on the web. The blogosphere, for example, provides an opportunity for independent, often minority and niche views and news to reach a wide audience. In fact uniting disparate people in ‘micro-communities’ is one of the web’s greatest abilities. How else would all those ice fans communicate without the ‘Ice Chewers Bulletin Board?’ And the only place for those who like to see pictures of dogs in bee costumes is, of course, ‘Beedogs.com: the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.’
On a more serious note, the change in the landscape of the news means that groups who had little access to self-representation before, such as youth groups, low income groups, and various minority groups may, through citizen journalism, begin to find that they too have a voice.
What about the professionals?
Do journalists fear for their jobs now everyone is producing content? It is likely that in future there will be fewer and fewer permanent trained staff at news organisations, leaving a smaller core staff who will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, sometimes known as ‘crowd sourcing.’ Some believe that the mediators and moderators might eventually disappear too, leaving a world where the media is, finally, unmediated. This does raise concerns however. Without moderation sites could be overrun by bigots or fools, by those who shout loudest, and those who have little else to do but make posts The risk of being dominated by defamatory or racist or other hate-fuelled content raises questions about unmoderated content: ‘free speech’ is great as long as you agree with what everybody is saying!
If there will be fewer jobs for trained journalists, will there also be less profit for the big institutions? This seems unlikely. Although how to ‘monetarise’ UGC – how to make money for both the generator and the host of the content – is still being debated, bigger institutions have been buying up social networking sites for the last few years. Rather than launch their own challenge, they simply buy the site. Flickr is now owned by Yahoo!, YouTube was bought by Google, Microsoft invested in Facebook, and News Corp., owned by Murdoch, bought MySpace.
There is a whole new world out there. With it comes new responsibility. There is enormous potential to expand our view of the world and our understanding of what is happening. Our collective knowledge, and wisdom, should grow. On the other hand, in twenty years time, the news could be overrun by pictures of people’s kittens and a few bigots shouting across message boards at each other.
Sara Mills teaches Media Studies at Helston Community College, Cornwall, and is an AQA examiner.
This article first appeared in MediaMagazine 30, December 2009.
An example of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’ is Rodney King, an African-American, who was in a high speed chase, and the officers had surrounded him, tasering him and beaten with clubs. This event was recorded by an onlooker from his apartment. This video was shown on the news, and became a viral. The event led to six days of rioting, 53 people died nd 4000 people injured badly.
Formats for participation that are no offered by news organisations are:
• Message boards
• Chatrooms
• Q&A
• Polls
• Blogs
• UGC (social networking)
Professionally shot footage is hard hitting and emotive. This is created by high quality technology and used in many news reports. First hand footage is raw and unpromising, but with bad quality and hand held shots.
A gatekeeper is someone that controls access to something. For example an editor is a gatekeeper as it controls what is said and published.” provides an opportunity for independent, often minority and niche views and news to reach a wide audience.”
The role of a gatekeeper has changed as there is more UGC happening creating a more raw and unprofessional approach to showing news.
One of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC, could be that many people are providing everyone with the news via YouTube, social networking, where the journalist will be late in providing it to the nation as they already have seen it.
Is reality becoming more real? The rise and rise of UGC
Sara Mills explores the rise of the citizen journalist and considers the impact of user-generated content on news stories, the news agenda, and the role of the professionals.
Once, it was all quite simple…the big institutions created the news and broadcast it to a variously passive and receptive audience. Now new technologies mean that the audience are no longer passive receivers of news. The audience have become ‘users’ and the users have become publishers. Audiences now create their own content. We are in the era of user generated content (UGC) where the old divide between institution and audience is being eroded.
Key to this change has been the development of new technologies such as video phones and the growth of the internet and user-dominated sites. Both who makes the news and what makes the news have been radically altered by this growth of media technologies and the rise of the ‘citizen journalist’.
We first felt the effects of the new technologies way back in 1991. Video cameras had become more common and more people could afford them…unfortunately for four Los Angeles police officers! Having caught Rodney King, an African-American, after a high speed chase, the officers surrounded him, tasered him and beat him with clubs. The event was filmed by an onlooker from his apartment window. The home-video footage made prime-time news and became an international media sensation, and a focus for complaints about police racism towards African-Americans. Four officers were charged with assault and use of excessive force, but in 1992 they were acquitted of the charges. This acquittal, in the face of the video footage which clearly showed the beatings, sparked huge civil unrest. There were six days of riots, 53 people died, and around 4000 people were injured. The costs of the damage, looting and clear-up came in at up to a billion dollars. If George Holliday hadn’t been looking out of his apartment window and made a grab for his video camera at the time Rodney King was apprehended, none of this would have happened. King’s beating would be just another hidden incident with no consequences. The film footage can be still be viewed. Try looking on YouTube under ‘What started the LA riots.’ But be warned – it makes for very uncomfortable viewing, and even today, it is easy to see why this minute and half of blurry, poor-quality film had such a huge impact.
This was one of the first examples of the news being generated by ‘ordinary people,’ now commonly known as ‘citizen journalists’, ‘grassroots journalists’, or even ‘accidental journalists’. As technology improved over the years, incidents of this kind have become more and more common. Millions of people have constant access to filming capability through their mobiles, and footage can be uploaded and rapidly distributed on the internet. The power to make and break news has moved beyond the traditional news institutions.
It is not only in providing footage for the news that citizen journalists have come to the forefront. UGC now plays a huge role in many aspects of the media. Most news organisations include formats for participation: message boards, chat rooms, Q&A, polls, have your says, and blogs with comments enabled. Social media sites are also built around UGC as seen in the four biggest social networking sites: Bebo, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook. People also turn to UGC sites to access news: Wikipedia news, Google news and YouTube score highly in terms of where people go to get their news.
The natural disaster of the Asian Tsunami on December 26th 2004 was another turning point for UGC. Much of the early footage of events was provided from citizen journalists, or ‘accidental journalists,’ providing on-the-spot witness accounts of events as they unfolded. Tourists who would otherwise have been happily filming holiday moments were suddenly recording one of the worst natural disasters in recent times. In addition, in the days after the disaster, social networking sites provided witness accounts for a world-wide audience, helped survivors and family members get in touch and acted as a forum all those involved to share their experiences.
A second terrible event, the London bombings on July 5th 2005, provided another opportunity for citizen journalists to influence the mainstream news agenda. No one was closer to events than those caught up in the bombings, and the footage they provided from their mobile phones was raw and uncompromising. This first-hand view, rather than professionally shot footage from behind police lines, is often more hard-hitting and emotive. An audience used to relatively unmediated reality through the prevalence of reality TV can now see similarly unmediated footage on the news.
The desire for everyone to tell their own story and have their own moment of fame may explain the huge popularity of Facebook, MySpace and other such sites It also had a more negative outcome in the package of writings, photos and video footage that 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate at Virginia Tech, mailed into NBC News. Between his first attack, when he shot two people, he sent the package from a local post office, before going on to kill a further 30 people. In his so-called ‘manifesto’ Cho showed his paranoia and obsession, likening himself to Jesus Christ. The reporting of the terrible events at Virginia Tech that day was also affected by citizen journalism, and the footage that student Jamal Albarghouti shot on his mobile phone video camera. Rather than concentrate on saving his own life, he recorded events from his position lying on the ground near the firing. The footage, available on YouTube and CNN brought events home to a worldwide audience. We now expect passers by, witnesses, or even victims, to whip out their camera phones and record events, an instinct almost as powerful as that to save their own or others’ lives. Perhaps the news now seems old-fashioned and somehow staged if it lacks the raw, grainy low-quality footage provided by citizen journalists.
Twitter and flickr came to the forefront during the Mumbai bombings in India in late November 2008. As bombs exploded across the city, the world’s media got up-to date with events through reports on Twitter and Flickr. There were questions raised, however, that by broadcasting their tweets, people may have been putting their own and others’ lives at risk.
It was on Twitter again that the story of the Hudson River plane crash on January 15th 2009 was broken to the world. With a dramatic picture of a plane half sinking in the river, and passengers crowded on the wing awaiting rescue Janis Krun tweeted:
There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.
The picture is still available on Twitpic, under ‘Janis Krun’s tweet.’ While national news organisations quickly swung into action, it was the citizen journalist, empowered by social networking sites, that first broke the story.
So who’s keeping the gate?
Are the gatekeepers still fulfilling their old function of deciding what is and isn’t news, and what will and won’t be broadcast? In some ways, yes. You can send in as much UGC to the major news organisations as you want, with no guarantee that any of it will ever be aired. In fact, last year a BBC spokesperson reported that a large proportion of photos sent in to the news unit were of kittens. While this may represent the interest of the audience, or users, it still doesn’t turn the fact that your kitten is really cute into ‘news.’
The way around the gatekeepers is with the independent media on the web. The blogosphere, for example, provides an opportunity for independent, often minority and niche views and news to reach a wide audience. In fact uniting disparate people in ‘micro-communities’ is one of the web’s greatest abilities. How else would all those ice fans communicate without the ‘Ice Chewers Bulletin Board?’ And the only place for those who like to see pictures of dogs in bee costumes is, of course, ‘Beedogs.com: the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.’
On a more serious note, the change in the landscape of the news means that groups who had little access to self-representation before, such as youth groups, low income groups, and various minority groups may, through citizen journalism, begin to find that they too have a voice.
What about the professionals?
Do journalists fear for their jobs now everyone is producing content? It is likely that in future there will be fewer and fewer permanent trained staff at news organisations, leaving a smaller core staff who will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, sometimes known as ‘crowd sourcing.’ Some believe that the mediators and moderators might eventually disappear too, leaving a world where the media is, finally, unmediated. This does raise concerns however. Without moderation sites could be overrun by bigots or fools, by those who shout loudest, and those who have little else to do but make posts The risk of being dominated by defamatory or racist or other hate-fuelled content raises questions about unmoderated content: ‘free speech’ is great as long as you agree with what everybody is saying!
If there will be fewer jobs for trained journalists, will there also be less profit for the big institutions? This seems unlikely. Although how to ‘monetarise’ UGC – how to make money for both the generator and the host of the content – is still being debated, bigger institutions have been buying up social networking sites for the last few years. Rather than launch their own challenge, they simply buy the site. Flickr is now owned by Yahoo!, YouTube was bought by Google, Microsoft invested in Facebook, and News Corp., owned by Murdoch, bought MySpace.
There is a whole new world out there. With it comes new responsibility. There is enormous potential to expand our view of the world and our understanding of what is happening. Our collective knowledge, and wisdom, should grow. On the other hand, in twenty years time, the news could be overrun by pictures of people’s kittens and a few bigots shouting across message boards at each other.
Sara Mills teaches Media Studies at Helston Community College, Cornwall, and is an AQA examiner.
This article first appeared in MediaMagazine 30, December 2009.
Monday 17 October 2011
News Diary =)
16th October 2011
E-media:
Online Newspaper:
Ealing Gazette (local)
They have two sections one of which relate to local latest news in Ealing, Acton, Southall and Hanwell.
One story included that was placed number one, was Ealing-based college was shut down by the border agency. Another story was on a disabled, one legged women, having her benefits cut and being forced to work.
The other section is sports; main story is ‘Warnock blames boots for DJ injury’
Having two sections gives the community that read this gazette a variety and due to the socio-economic backgrounds based in these regions on west London, gives them news they wish to know about.
Layout: simple and easy to use, user friendly. Less information provided and more pictures and adverts.
The Guardian (National) Newspaper: main stories are: football, Newcastle vs. Tottenham, politics about Cameron plans regulations around political lobbyists, these are hard news (mainly on the top half of the page), soft news is mainly lower down the page which includes: ‘the battle to fill Galliano’s shoes’, ‘hunting: who let the dogs out’, ‘now it’s time for you to sing a song’ etc. the main stories are on the left side of the page and the right is dedicated to sports and how it cook.
Layout: the main story is a different colour and larger. However political stories are on the left hand side of the page which attracts the readers eye first because we read from left to right.
Broadcast:
17th October 2011
Radio: Capital FM
The news at 7.30am was:
About: Banks, protesting outside St Pauls Cathedral, the murder of a BBC man in Bexley after celebrating his 32th birthday, man in critical conditions after a fight in Ilford, Dan Wilton died in Las Vegas during a car race, Win for Arsenal, Spurs drew, help a capital child as celebrities such a jessi j and jls are twitting about, top 40 talks to Nathan about Xfactor from ‘The Wanted’ and finally the weather.
At 7.30, listeners are en route to work, which is the reason for why the hard news comes first and then finally leaving soft news such as X factor, sports and so on last.
Radio 4
Car racer- describing the accident; Arguments against them the track was unsuited for the race. They interviews with randy burnard him saying ‘they drivers are going to do a 5 lap salut for his hounour.
Children society: being detained at uk boarder, freedom of information request 697 child held at devour, Heathrow Gatwick and standsted.
Libran – revenge attacks on kadafi house, council has pulled own the wall and watched them surround the kadafi house.
Counter terrorism – Islamic charities has spread, and effecting humanity, Somalia
Politics- first socialized to occupy the (something), left wing only can take part
Then the weather
Radio four outline the main storied briefly and then after mentioning all of them, they get in to detail of the information. They mainly speak about hard news. However, even they do talk about soft news, it is one out of mainly hard news, only allowing less than a couple of seconds on that topic.
Print:
Newspapers:
The sun:
One of the main stories shown on the newspaper was a ‘shotgun robber aged 13’ and sports. The sun provide soft and hard information however, they use larger photos to appeal to their target audience.
As years pass, technology is increasing, many people are parallel to the rate of increasing in technology.
‘The Daily’ is an example of the explosion in many different ways and formats we have now receive news one, as the daily is only available only on the iPad. From this, news readers would be encouraged to buy the iPad and have easy access to the news. This is not available on the internet (computers/laptops) which suggests as technology is increasing the institutions are finding it easy to produce news on new media.
This shows there is an explosion in different ways and formats we can now receive news because news producers are finding different ways audience can access the news without going out their ways.
This is benefiting the audience because they are able to have 24 hour news, continuously updating which is more reliable then newspapers, and they cannot be updated in seconds. In addition, people are able to read the news whenever and where ever they are.
E-media:
Online Newspaper:
Ealing Gazette (local)
They have two sections one of which relate to local latest news in Ealing, Acton, Southall and Hanwell.
One story included that was placed number one, was Ealing-based college was shut down by the border agency. Another story was on a disabled, one legged women, having her benefits cut and being forced to work.
The other section is sports; main story is ‘Warnock blames boots for DJ injury’
Having two sections gives the community that read this gazette a variety and due to the socio-economic backgrounds based in these regions on west London, gives them news they wish to know about.
Layout: simple and easy to use, user friendly. Less information provided and more pictures and adverts.
The Guardian (National) Newspaper: main stories are: football, Newcastle vs. Tottenham, politics about Cameron plans regulations around political lobbyists, these are hard news (mainly on the top half of the page), soft news is mainly lower down the page which includes: ‘the battle to fill Galliano’s shoes’, ‘hunting: who let the dogs out’, ‘now it’s time for you to sing a song’ etc. the main stories are on the left side of the page and the right is dedicated to sports and how it cook.
Layout: the main story is a different colour and larger. However political stories are on the left hand side of the page which attracts the readers eye first because we read from left to right.
Broadcast:
17th October 2011
Radio: Capital FM
The news at 7.30am was:
About: Banks, protesting outside St Pauls Cathedral, the murder of a BBC man in Bexley after celebrating his 32th birthday, man in critical conditions after a fight in Ilford, Dan Wilton died in Las Vegas during a car race, Win for Arsenal, Spurs drew, help a capital child as celebrities such a jessi j and jls are twitting about, top 40 talks to Nathan about Xfactor from ‘The Wanted’ and finally the weather.
At 7.30, listeners are en route to work, which is the reason for why the hard news comes first and then finally leaving soft news such as X factor, sports and so on last.
Radio 4
A car racer died after a high speed 15 car accident in Las Vegas
David cam- reduce prices
Forecast in uk economically has stalled at a abgerous junctions– not growing
Arsenal has won a match to get back to the top half of the table.
Car racer- describing the accident; Arguments against them the track was unsuited for the race. They interviews with randy burnard him saying ‘they drivers are going to do a 5 lap salut for his hounour.
Children society: being detained at uk boarder, freedom of information request 697 child held at devour, Heathrow Gatwick and standsted.
Libran – revenge attacks on kadafi house, council has pulled own the wall and watched them surround the kadafi house.
Counter terrorism – Islamic charities has spread, and effecting humanity, Somalia
Politics- first socialized to occupy the (something), left wing only can take part
Then the weather
Radio four outline the main storied briefly and then after mentioning all of them, they get in to detail of the information. They mainly speak about hard news. However, even they do talk about soft news, it is one out of mainly hard news, only allowing less than a couple of seconds on that topic.
Print:
Newspapers:
The sun:
One of the main stories shown on the newspaper was a ‘shotgun robber aged 13’ and sports. The sun provide soft and hard information however, they use larger photos to appeal to their target audience.
What do you think has been the impact of this explosion in the many different ways and formats we can how receive news on?Having televisions in very few houses had increased the consumption of televisions, which decreased the amount of people going to the art house cinemas to watch the news. From then, television had become the main source to provide the news to the audience. By having an increase in readership through television, many people stopped going into the cinema and invested in the television.
As years pass, technology is increasing, many people are parallel to the rate of increasing in technology.
‘The Daily’ is an example of the explosion in many different ways and formats we have now receive news one, as the daily is only available only on the iPad. From this, news readers would be encouraged to buy the iPad and have easy access to the news. This is not available on the internet (computers/laptops) which suggests as technology is increasing the institutions are finding it easy to produce news on new media.
This shows there is an explosion in different ways and formats we can now receive news because news producers are finding different ways audience can access the news without going out their ways.
This is benefiting the audience because they are able to have 24 hour news, continuously updating which is more reliable then newspapers, and they cannot be updated in seconds. In addition, people are able to read the news whenever and where ever they are.
Monday 10 October 2011
News
BBC:founded 1st January 1927, by John Reith and George Villiers. £3,446.8 million in licence fees collected from householders; £888.3 million from BBC Commercial Businesses; £293 million from government grants; £112.9 million from other income, such as providing content to overseas broadcasters and concert ticket sales.
Broadcast: weekly reach; Radio- 66.5%, BBC tv- 85.3%. BBC Radio 2, playing adult contemporary, country and soul music amongst many other genres; BBC Radio 3, playing classical and jazz music and home to the BBC Proms: BBC Radio 4, offering current affairs, factual, drama and comedy speech programmes and BBC Radio 5 live, broadcasting 24 hour news, sport and talk programmes.
E-media: bbc.co.uk- 57%. for seven days after broadcast using the BBC iPlayer platform, which launched on 27 July 2007, and initially used peer-to-peer. In recent years some major on-line companies and politicians have complained that BBC Online receives too much funding from the television licence, meaning that other websites are unable to compete with the vast amount of advertising-free on-line content available on BBC Online
SKY NEWS:Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New Zealand, as well as their previously operated version in Ireland. Sky News is also offered in an international version without the British adverts under the name Sky News International available in Europe and Asia.
Sister channels are: Challenge, Pick TV, Sky 1, Sky2 ,Sky arts, Sky Atlantic, sky living, sky livingit, Sky living loves, Sky movies, Sky movies box office, Sky sports, Sky sports news. Websites they own are official websites and live stream (UK & Ireland only).
In March 2007, BSkyB and Chrysalis Group announced a joint partnership to launch a dedicated Sky News Radio station on the proposed bid by Channel 4’s, 4 Digital Group for the second DAB multiplex in the United Kingdom.
CHANNEL 5News is the news programme of British broadcaster Channel 5 produced by Sky news. From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Channel 5,
The 5 News website features the day's top news story, as well as detailed weather forecasts and a blog written by Five News presenters. 2004 Boxing Day tsunami brought this forward two days in a short Saturday evening update.
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