NDM News: Citizen journalism

Examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1WywIpUtY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpGxagKOkv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8Feyr38Ss

Theory (audience reception etc.)

Shared Experience

Sense Of Group & Belonging

Authentic

Dominant Readings

Surveillance 

Benefits to institutions

Don't have to pay for any camera vans to produce footage for events, most footage on the news now comes from video phones. Also means that they give out a authentic representation to their audience.

Benefits to audience

They feel like they are at the event, allows them to see whats really going on without any edited, cut footage. News is also more accessible due to social media.

SHEP

Social:

Everyone can be a journalist

More variety of news

Able to receive news faster and efficiently

More of a democratic voice than any other time period.

Historical:

Changed the way we used to view news completely.

Jobs are being lost as institutions may not require high paid journalists or high quality footage.

News is more open and explicit due to the realness of citizen journalism.

Economical:

Jobs are being lost, not good for the economy.

Everyone is being watched,

Consider actions.

News institutions save money.

Politics:

With the amount of footage of Police Brutality many governments are at risk of riots and protests.

Government may not be trusted.

1) What is meant by the term ‘citizen journalist’?
It means that the audience are now the users, the audience are now able to create the news that we all see and allows for a real and shared experience of whats happening.

2) What was one of the first examples of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’?
The Beating Of Rodney King In 1992 & September 11th 2001

3) List some of the formats for participation that are now offered by news organisations.
Comment feeds online, thread posts etc

4) What is one of the main differences between professionally shot footage and that taken first-hand (UGC)?
Better quality images may be provided by professional footage, but professional footage is always edited and cut to make a hoax story in order to help news institutions, the difference is that first hand footage is raw and uncut.
5) What is a gatekeeper?
A filter of news that decides what is published to the audience.

6) How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?
We now have access to publish whatever content we have and form our own opinions on it for everyone to see, there is no filter now.

7) What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC?
That they may not be a job for them and that they're industry of work is being taken over by the audience, also that the internet has allowed for news to be free.
What impact is new/digital media having on the following:

News Stories:

Less quality news but allows for more realistic and straight up content, a lot less editing and fake stories.

The news agenda (the choice of stories that make up the news):

I guess now news industries must rely on whats become viral by citizen journalism, they may also resort to whats new in social media and distribute it across they're platforms. Before, they may have been the first to receive news, now its social media.

The role of professionals in news:

Professionals must ensure that the stories they write must be genuine and real as new and digital media has allowed for evil people to create very real looking false information, this has caused many professional jobs to be lost in the industry,

Harrowing film recorded from inside the car reveals the last minutes of drug-drive friends who sped through the countryside at 90mph before crashing into a church and dying

• Dad-of-one Michael Owen captured Kyle Careford speeding in East Sussex
• Michael was heard saying 'you're doing 90 boy, slow down' in the footage
• Sussex Police released the video following an inquest into the deaths 
• The families hope it will stop others from making the same mistake

This article shows that its come to a stage where we can record our own deaths, two best friends speeding on the motorway recorded their illegal activities ended up crashing into a church and one of them recorded the whole thing, he died while the phone was still recording and could hear police and witnesses come to help. The footage was released by the family to help other youth drivers to insure they don't make the same mistake. 

Sun website traffic slips by 14%

News UK title’s daily visitors fall to 1.1 million, with the Daily Star, Mirror and Metro hit after end of football transfer window

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Thursday 15 October 2015 13.25 BSTLast modified on Thursday 15 October 201514.43 BST

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The Sun has suffered its first fall in web traffic since moving to relax its paywall as its site saw average daily visitors fall by 14% to 1.1 million in September.

News UK’s website, which decided to relax its paywall and resume official traffic measurement in July, has now slipped back behind Express.co.uk which fell by just 0.03% month on month to 1.2 million average daily visitors.

The Sun is likely to have been a victim of the annual slump that hits many national titles following the end of the traffic surge in August surrounding the football transfer window.

There was good news for The Guardian (up 11.28%) and the Independent (up 10.32%), fuelled by interest in stories such as the discovery of running water on Mars and the super blood moon.

MailOnline 13,365,390 (-2.46%)

theguardian.com 8,370,243 (+11.28%)

Telegraph 4,419,480 (+0.11%)

Mirror Group Nationals 3,894,176 (-8.77%)

The Independent 2,780,560 (+10.32%)

Express.co.uk 1,213,037 (-0.03%)

The Sun 1,108,861 (-14.04%)

Metro 925,535 (-33.9%)

Dailystar.co.uk 570,609 (-35%)

Evening Standard 410,250 (-3.32%)

Rupert Murdoch sorry for suggesting Obama isn't a ‘real black president’

Murdoch sent a tweet on Wednesday night praising the Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson and jabbing at the current president.



Rupert Murdoch has issued an apology, after suggesting on Twitter that Barack Obama was not a “real black president”.
"Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else. — Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) October 8, 2015"
This tweet caused a lot of tension and unhappy people on twitter that night, this goes to show how opinions from opinions leaders can spread very quickly and can cause such a big effect, it shows how NDM has allowed for people to comment on their views and interact with others opnions.

The Great British Bake Off final gets biggest TV audience of the year

Nadiya Jamir Hussain’s victory in BBC baking contest pulls in a record average of more than 13 million viewers

Nadiya Jamir Hussain’s win in The Great British Bake Off attracted a record audience of more than 13 million viewers, making it the most-watched TV show of the year.
The final of the baking show drew an average of 13.4 million and a five-minute peak of 14.5 million on Wednesday, beating last year’s audience and the final of Britain’s Got Talent as the biggest show of 2015 to date.

This shows that traditional prime time TV is still breaking numbers in terms of viewers and things like iPlayers and Online TV hasn't stared to take over YET.

NDM: The future of newspapers, Build The Wall analysis

Section 1 (To all of the bystanders reading this…)

Content is free online and for news industires to begin starting a paid subscription scheme may be dangerous.Section 2 (Truth is, a halting movement toward...)

Newspapers that are available online for free without paid subscriptions are always available meaning that industries that start paid subscriptions may have quite repetitive content.Section 3 (Beyond Mr. Sulzberger and Ms. Weymouth…)

Industries being able to start a paid subscription scheme would mean that they are able to generate a lot more revenue than what they have been making in the past years, it would mean that they will actually gain a reasonable, sustainable amount of profit.

Section 4 (For the industry, it is later than it should be…)Even though its very late for the news industry, they are still able to gain a little more revenue and profit from starting this scheme.

Davids argument is that news industries should start using a paid subscription scheme for users. This will enable them to read daily, weekly newspapers online exclusively to paid users. This helps ensure that news industries are still able to generate enough profit and revenue to stay alive as they're has been a major decline in print news in the recent years. This has caused journalists to lose a lot of jobs and also means that news industries have less, lower quality articles for users to read. David also goes on to say that the news industry is far far too late in introducing this scheme, it has been around 15 years since the internet was accessible to everyone and a lot of institutions and business manage to adapt to it well, but the news industry didn't. They offered they're content for free online but physical newspapers still had to be paid for. David also goes on to say that in order for this scheme to work very well across the news industry, every institution must be using it, this is so that users don't just rely on the instutions that are free, leading to a much higher dealing in those that are paid for. Also, if theres only a certain amount of institutions that have this scheme and others that don't it will lead to news being more repetitive and copied, meaning that people will be paying for content which is basically free.

Read this response to the article by Dave Levy, criticising and disagreeing with David Simon's viewpoint. What references to new and digital media can you find in Levy's response?

Levy goes on to disagree with Davids argument, he talks on how the news industry mislead the internet as more of a marketing industry other than a service provider, news industries have been offering free content for years, so if they were to offer a paid subscription now would users even commit to it? it also means that consumers must be committed and dedicated with news institutions. He also says that its too late for them as news is now published online on blogs, social media and forums, meaning that we don't even need to look into news institutions for news itself.

Finally, what is your own opinion? 

I believe what david is arguing for in his article, i believe that the news industries are bringing in this paid subscription way too late and that they should have done it in the very beginning, although now that the times by rupert murdoch has brought this delayed idea to life there is a slight chance that the news advantage can start gaining some revenue from new and digital media than before. If news instutions started this scheme back when the internet was viral they're wouldnt be any problems with the reduction of high quality journalism. I also believe that in order for the paid subscription scheme to work, every institution will need to be using it too in order for it to work in full effect simply because paid subscription services will have the same content as free sites, using a lot of repetition online.

Newspapers: The Effect Of Online Technology

1) Do you agree with James Murdoch that the BBC should not be allowed to provide free news online? Why?

I believe that in order for news institutions to stay alive and to generate profit the BBC shouldn't provide news for free, this is because if they allow free news whilst other institutions don't, they will not run, because BBC will have the most dominant audience base, James Murdoch has a point.

2) Read this blog on the Times paywall three years on.

3) Was Rupert Murdoch right to put his news content (The Times, The Sun) behind a paywall?

I believe he was right in doing so, this technique would've worked very well across every news institution if they did so in the beginning, it allows news to generate a new type of revenue that makes sense, consumers actually paying for the content, this would help ensure the news industry stays alive for the future, but its too late now.

4) Choose two comments from below the Times paywall article - one that argues in favour of the paywall and one that argues against. Copy a quote from each and explain which YOU agree with and why.

5) Read this article from the Media Briefing on the continuing decline of the newspaper industry. 

6) Why do you think the Evening Standard has bucked the trend and increased circulation and profit in the last two years?

As its a free newspaper and hardly any consumers pay for news any more as its all free online, also as the evening standard is free and has a very high circulation, advertisers would want to advertise on this newspaper allowing the evening standard to generate profit. The paper has high circulation as its free and mostly given out at public transport locations.

7) Is there any hope for the newspaper industry or will it eventually die out? Provide a detailed response to this question explaining and justifying your opinion.

I believe that there is slight hope for the newspaper industry, I feel that if they are all able to provide digital pay walls like the times, there is a very high chance of news being able to make money and survive for the future, but the only problem is that the BBC wouldn't do this as they always provide accurate and free news, if every other institution brings in pay wall and the BBC doesn't there is no hope as everyone will just use BBC all the time.

UK mobile ad spend 'to overtake print and TV'

This article explains how the mobile advertising industry is due to overtake TV & Print in its total advertising revenues. Mobile ad spend is expected to increase by 45% this year to £3.26bn in the UK, overtaking the £2.67bn that will be spent on print advertising across national and local newspapers and magazines.  Mobile ad spend will see a further increase of 35% next year, to £4.4bn, which will see it nudge ahead of traditional TV advertising which will account for £4.26bn of spend.
By the end of next year mobile advertising will account for half of the £8.94bn that will be spent on digital marketing in the UK. UK adults are expected to spend an extra 30 minutes a day browsing websites and using apps on smartphones and tablets this year compared to 2014. By 2017, Britons’ will be spending more than 3 hours a day glued to their smartphones.

I think this shows how much new and digital media has created an effect on institutions as they are now able ti advertise to consumers much more quickly and direct, people are now easily directed towards adverts as they now pop up on apps that you use.

Netflix Create The "Netflix & Chill Button"

This article shows how netflix has gotten in with a new popular phrase and joke with its users, recently, social media blasted with funny memes about netflix and its users, back in 2009 when netflix was at its peak the term "Netflix & Chill" was a solo thing, people would assume someone was about to indulge of hours of netflix in bed. But now after  series of means the term "Netflix & Chill" basically means to hook up with someone. Now that netflix has seen how popular this joke is they are creating a setting for netflix which allows a easier access to see movies or tv shows suitable for couples.

• Shows how the internet has allows institutions to adapt to its users
• Informs us how easy it is for phrases to go viral so quickly online
• The phrase has since become a 21st-century version of “Do you want to come up for some coffee?”