http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/18/newsnight-inquiry-bbc-helen-boaden
One of the executives that pulled the plug on the jimmy Saville news night story, was made to step down as a result of not letting the story go through. An email sent around through the staff, says she will be coming back. The pollard document which is the report about the jimmy saville case will be published today at noon.
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Friday 14 December 2012
Thursday 13 December 2012
Weekly Media Story 11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/dec/13/uk-online-obsession-ofcom-latest-figures
This article is talking about the ofcom figures for online usage, describing it as an 'obsession'.
This article is talking about the ofcom figures for online usage, describing it as an 'obsession'.
- 60% of phones in the UK are smartphones
- Uk consumers download 424 mbs of data a month - almost 60% more than last year
- Increased usage in mobile phones has been driven by social networking on mobile phones
- Almost 25% of people use catchup tv serviceses a week
- Thats first place in the international rankings, way ahead of US
- Leading the way in online shopping,
- Uk consumers spend an average £1083 per anum
- 36% use the internet as the primary source of news
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Cover Work
News Corp's publishing are to focus on losses at Times and Sunday Times
- Thetimes and sunday times cost an estimated £1million a week.
- The companies have been able to run at the losses because news corp can absorb the losses, due to their financial position.
- The film and tv side of news corp is more profitable.
- They want to make changes but dont know if they wil be allowed because of the bad publicity.
- Competitors are also operating at a loss
This poses a serious problem due to the division from within news corp as a result of the bad publicity that the priniting side of the company has received over the pat 18months. It wasnt hidden but was masked because of how much money was generated by the broadcasting and production branch of newscorp and is something that needs to be addressed, especially with the fall in circulation of the newspapers.
Sunday Times circulation falls below 900,000 for the first time
- Fell by a little less than 1%
- 7.51% fall compared to last year
- All of the sunday newspaper competitors are also losing money and sales
- Artificially boosting circulation numbers
- The sun might fall below the 2million mark
- Sales of the sunday paper have fallen nearly 50%
I dont think that this is really that serious as it is also happening to their competitors It is serious but not extremely bad because its just the way that the market is going. If it was just there circulation figures that were going down then it would be a cause for concern but not so much as its happening to the rest of the firms.
Uk Newspaper advertising facing bleak forecast for 2013
- Predicted 9% decline
- Revenue is expected to fall below £1billion
- In 2005 its estimated that the newspaper advertising market was worth £2.5billion
- Prospect for regional newspapers is looking better
This is a huge problem for UK newspapers because there main revenue is generated from advertising. If the revenue is no longer there than this could be the decline of an industry that once drove every nation. This could be the start of the decline of print.
The ups and downs of BBC Online
- Less than 8million people online in 1997
- More than 50million today
The figures have tended to fluctuate but there clearly has been a huge increase in the amount of views on the website. Its showing how the way people reccieve the news is changing. When big things happen in the world online is usually the first to report it as it allows the most flexibility. This is supported by the chart we are given.
Thursday 6 December 2012
Weekly media story 10
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/06/spotify-pays-500m-dollars-royalties
- Spotify has had to pay a ton in royalties back to traditional media institutions
- Supports that power is in the hands of a few
Wednesday 5 December 2012
Is the media more democratic as a result of new technology?
Is the media more democratic as a result of new technology.
digitcal divide
With this new media age we are in, web 2.0, we have so much technology around us, internet enabled phones and tablets that all allow us to voice our opinions. Voicing our opinions can take many different forms, for example, citizen journalism, user generated: videos, pod-casts, blogs etc. We are allowed to voice our opinions through services such as youtube and blogger for example, however these services are owned by the same company. This supports the idea that even though the audience has more power than it did previously, media still is in the control of the dominant media firms, for example google twitter, facebook. People have been given more of voice thanks to the new age of media, but they still are under the watchful all seeing eye of gatekeepers, who decide what can be made mainstream and what not. However people still are able to get their points across and make news by virally spreading things, for example the bus driver uppercut wouldnt of made news if it wasnt for it spreading around the internet, mainly through social networking websites. Nichie target audience websites such as worldstar hiphop enable things like this to be news, because they allow for UGC to be accessed by a wide audience. This is the same with youtube, blogger and other similar websites and services just like it. There is a digital divide in our age where people dont understand technology or whatever their reason is not to use it. New technology allows for us as a culture and community to bridge the gap and try to reduce the digital divide, by things making a big enough noise on social networking websites and nichie target audience websites, that they cannot be ignored by the big traditional media insitutions that are the main source of information to the digital have nots, of the digital divide. To answer the original question, yes the media has become more democaratic as a result of new technology for the reasons above.
digitcal divide
With this new media age we are in, web 2.0, we have so much technology around us, internet enabled phones and tablets that all allow us to voice our opinions. Voicing our opinions can take many different forms, for example, citizen journalism, user generated: videos, pod-casts, blogs etc. We are allowed to voice our opinions through services such as youtube and blogger for example, however these services are owned by the same company. This supports the idea that even though the audience has more power than it did previously, media still is in the control of the dominant media firms, for example google twitter, facebook. People have been given more of voice thanks to the new age of media, but they still are under the watchful all seeing eye of gatekeepers, who decide what can be made mainstream and what not. However people still are able to get their points across and make news by virally spreading things, for example the bus driver uppercut wouldnt of made news if it wasnt for it spreading around the internet, mainly through social networking websites. Nichie target audience websites such as worldstar hiphop enable things like this to be news, because they allow for UGC to be accessed by a wide audience. This is the same with youtube, blogger and other similar websites and services just like it. There is a digital divide in our age where people dont understand technology or whatever their reason is not to use it. New technology allows for us as a culture and community to bridge the gap and try to reduce the digital divide, by things making a big enough noise on social networking websites and nichie target audience websites, that they cannot be ignored by the big traditional media insitutions that are the main source of information to the digital have nots, of the digital divide. To answer the original question, yes the media has become more democaratic as a result of new technology for the reasons above.
Article work
The first article bascially is talking about how the new age of media, media 2.0, is still in the hands of a small number of conglamerates that control the media. It gives the impression that the audience is getting empowered and that they are becoming producers, which is true to an extent, but really the gatekeepers and editors still have the power. Not everyone is taking the power that they can have, the power that they can now become producers, they are producing amateur videos of family videos, and other nonsense, not videos promoting any ideologies or trying to change the world. According to the article participation is hard to define, and that a very small miority are participating and being active on sites such as youtube whereas others are just viewing the text for whatever pleasure they seek or need.
In the second article they are talking about any possible link between democracy. It also talks about how people are trying to go against the media grain, they want to be different and have their voices heard, example being rage against the machine. It also talks about how Michael Jacksons death is an example of democracy about how audiences were able to obtain the news story before traditional news outlets were able to mediate the story. They also talk about how blogging is another example of democracy. It concludes by saying that citizen journalism wont make traditional news irrevlevant but it will complement traditional news.
In the second article they are talking about any possible link between democracy. It also talks about how people are trying to go against the media grain, they want to be different and have their voices heard, example being rage against the machine. It also talks about how Michael Jacksons death is an example of democracy about how audiences were able to obtain the news story before traditional news outlets were able to mediate the story. They also talk about how blogging is another example of democracy. It concludes by saying that citizen journalism wont make traditional news irrevlevant but it will complement traditional news.
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