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

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.