Weekly NDM story

Twitter files for Thanksgiving IPO

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/30/twitter-files-for-thanksgiving-ipo

Summary of the story:

Twitter is thought to be planning to reveal the details of its initial public offering this week, after it filed the necessary documents confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 12 September. The act was designed to make it quicker and easier for companies to go public, removing obstacles such as as the requirement to submit a public prospectus months before shares actually go on sale.
key facts and information: 

• The company was able to file its draft S-1 form in secret since it has revenue of under $1bn.
• The company filed its draft prospectus in public over three months before it eventually hit the markets in May 2012,
• Its value drop dramatically from $45 per share on the first day of trading

My view on the story: In my opinion, I think this shows people how fast New and digital media is actually controlling the internet. The fact that they are concerned about Facebook and its value tops everything up. The statistic ' Summer shift to mobile saw its value drop dramatically from $45 per share on the first day of trading' adding to this, it also took until august 2013 for its value to return to that.

Example Of Citizen Journalism

7/7 Bombing


 In central London on Thursday 7 July, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770.

This footage was caught by CCTV of the 7/7 bombing which focuses the attackers actions as they enter the underground station. The attack took place in Aldgate station at approximately 8:51am; however, 15 seconds later a third bomb occurred in a Tube tunnel near Russel Square. Notably, on 7th July 2005 the four main terrorists; Germaine, Mohammed Siddique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Hasib Hussain killed themselves and 52 others in this horrific terrorist assault on London. Moreover, this gave citizens journalists the opportunity to influence the mainstream news which highlights the concept of user-generate content as they are producing the information. Furthermore, some of the footage which people have filmed on their phones was first hand view which makes it raw, hard hitting and emotive. This is significant in relation to citizen journalism as those individuals was able to post it publicly on social networking sites such as Facebook or Youtube which then resulted to a moral panic. This highlights the concept of user generate content people around the world began to connect with one another or watching all of the live footage's. 

The Rise And Rise of UGC

What is meant by the term ' Citizen Journalist' ?

The term ' Citizen journalist' refers to the collection, dissemination, and analysis of news by the public, by means of cell phones, digital cameras, blogs, et c. Also, a Citizen Journalist a private individuals do essentially what professional reporters do - report information. That information can take many forms, from a pod cast editorial to a report about a city council meeting on a blog. It can include text, pictures, audio and video. But it's basically all about communicating information of some kind. The other main feature of citizen journalism is that it's usually found on-line  Adding to that, the emergence of the Internet - with blogs, pod casts  streaming video and other Web-related innovations - is what has made citizen journalism possible.

 

What was one of the first example of news being generated by ordinary people?

The first example was in the 1991 where video cameras got more common and more people can afford them. An African- American, who was the victim, called Rodney king after a high speed chase, four officers surrounded him, tasered him then beat him with a clubs. This was cough by a ordinary people, and this home footage was the prime-time news. This shows how technology had a great impact on news in society today.

List of the format for participation that are now offered by news organisation?

• Message boards
• Chat rooms 
• Q&A
• polls
• Having your say
• blogs with comments enabled 
• Social media: YouTube and Facebook, Google and twitter 
• UGC- To access news, also seen in the four biggest social networking sites.

What is one of the main differences between professionally shoot footage and that taken to first- hand (UGC) ?

The difference between professional shot footage and UGC footage is that the User Generated Content is hard-hitting and emotive. Therefore news is now considered to be old fashioned if it lacks the low quality grainy style of footage that is proved by citizen journalists.
 

What is a gatekeeper?
The organisation which decides the types of text that is/is not news and whether it will broadcast the content provided by the Citizen journalists is called a gatekeeper as they in other words filter the content for publication.

How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?
A gatekeepers job role has changed as it’s has become more important because before it had very little access to self-representation before such as youth groups, low income groups, and various minority groups may but now it has gained its own voice through the use of citizen journalism.

What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC?
The main concern held by journalists over the rise of UGC is that they are no longer needed in event as ‘ordinary people’ have become their own journalists and product better content. Therefore journalists fear that they will no longer have jobs in the future and leaving large organisation out of jobs as smaller core staff will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, this is called ‘crowd sourcing.’

Three new sources ( Within the three plaforms )

E-media: YouTube

The SourceFed is broadcasted on YouTube and the setting for the source feed is different to other news providers such as channel 4 and BBC. Sourcefed is also news website as well as a YouTube channel created by Philip DeFranco.  SourceFed's  is usually 20 Minutes or Less; a news show which presents five news related videos daily from Monday to Thursday. The SourceFed team consists of hosts, editors, bloggers, and one producer. The hosts are YouTube bloggers who are used like reporters, but only exclusive on the Internet and not on television or on radio. The target audience are between 15 to 25 as the show informs the audience about the top news around however creates humour and allows the audience to stay amused with the creative images and gestures used by the hosts as it creates interest and wanting the audience want to watch more as normal news is boring for a younger audience.

Broadcast: BBC NEWS

The BBC is a non commercial channel and is setup by the Act of Parliament and therefore it is publicly owned and does not have shareholders. BBC role is to entertain, educate and entertain the audience. BBC news also broadcast on TV, Radio and on their website. They show two different type of news at a certain time for the viewers, the first one is at 6pm a this is the time everyone is coming home work and watching the latest heading in the world and the other one is at 10pm, as people are ready to go to bed and check the latest news, both of them are national news and start after when they finish local news comes up. BBC has such a niche audience, as only some people watch it every day not compared to their completion like channel four and sky news. Moreover, the news reporter have to be dressed and speak formally to represent them as being sophisticated and educated but also to make the company look good as well. Another convention is that they are usually sitting down and speaking directly into the camera. The impact news and digital media has on this is that audience can now watch the news online rather than TV which highlights that e-media is now popular. Lastly, The target audience for the BBC is adults age 25-45 as they are more likely to keep up to date with temporary issues compared to the younger generation

 

Print: THE SUN

The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper which is published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The News Group Newspaper division of the New UK publishes it; the founder of the sun newspaper business is Rupert Murdoch. The Newspaper's online offering was the third most widely read in the world as of June 2012. The sun  Newspaper's main focus is about the world and politics thus attracting a more intellectual target audience (A/B class) who would be more interested in the text than the images. The impact of new/digital media on this newspaper is the fact that nobody actually reads the newspapers anymore, it's a slower way for news to travel, as mentioned above the Guardian online is more popular.

The Sun has the ninth-largest circulation of any newspaper in the world and the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. It had an average daily circulation of 2,409,811 copies in January 2013. Between January and June 2012 the paper had an average daily readership of approximately 7.3 million, with approximately 34% of those falling into the demographic and 64% in the demographic. The average age of a Sun reader is 45 and approximately 45% of readers are women.

 

 

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Weekly NDM story

' iPhone 5C: Why the naysayers are wrong to say Apple is in trouble'

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/16/apple-computing

Summary of the story:
This article is about the new iPhone 5C. This is a cheaper version of the iPhone 5S, which Apple have been criticised due to the price. Both iPhone’s are coming out this month, iPhone 5S costs £529 and the iPhone 5C costs £429. The difference between the phones, are that the iPhone 5C is cheaper and it is in plastic. The article also states how people are saying that Apple aren't in trouble but the demand for the iPhone is high, however whenever Apple release a new product, customers are always lining up outside to see the new product. I think that the iPhone 5C is pointless, as it does cost a lot of money and if you're going to pay £429 for the iPhone 5C, you might as well pay the extra £100 to get a better version. They are basically the same phone, but one is cheaper.

Key Facts/ statistical information:

• The iPhone 5 is a touchscreen-based smartphone developed by Apple
• It is the sixth generation of the iPhone and succeeds the iPhone 4
• The phone is a slimmer, lighter model that introduces a higher-resolution, 4-inch screen to the series with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratios
• The phone runs on iOS 6 Operating System and support for LTE
• Apple held an event to formally introduce the phone on September 12, 2012
• After Apple began taking pre-orders on September 14, 2012, over two million were received within 24 hours
• Keep it simple: Smartphone world is full of failures that didn't follow the maxi
• Samsung believes you can't have too much of a 'good' thing while the iPhone succeeded because it made things simple

My view on the story:

This article states that Samsung has made a choice that you can’t have too much of a good or bad thing. This is why their products offer features such as: air command, smart stay, smart scroll and air gesture. Comparing it from long ago, for example Japanese 'hi-fi companies' were successful but are no longer in the leading race as they have made no improvements. The article includes saying "the kitchen-sink approach appeals to our desire to have more stuffbut complexity carries a cost, in attention if nothing else. Back in the day adults didn’t use phones and now they are getting popular by the day and they are getting more complex, which makes it difficult for people to use them. This article is suggesting that phones need simplicity. 

Weekly NDM story

'We have abandoned our children to the internet'

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/abandoned-children-internet-addicted-virtual-damage
Summary of the story: 

This article is about how young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with care for collateral damage. Here parents believe the internet is actually tearing families, relationships and friendship apart, as it creates a virtual world of  no face-to-face communication. Children are constantly on their phones, having access to free pornography, which is worrying as children are given a false image of what the real world is actually about, and this ruins it for the parents as its their responsibility-  teaching them whats right and whats not and above all setting limits for their children.

Key data/statistical information:

• None

My view on the story:

In the article, it stated that ' Young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with little care for collateral damage". I disagree to a certain extent,  No doubt, SOME young people are addicted to this world but most are not. Most young people are more than capable of separating their online world from their offline world. Most young people are perfectly capable of maintaining healthy friendships and relationships.

Also, if the teenagers are learning about sex from pornography, that is a failure of parenting and not the Internet. Blaming the Internet is wrong as i am a B grade student and have plenty of time for games and social media.

Who are the major players in terms of news providers in the UK and what do they exactly own? The main major players of news providers in the UK are?

BBC
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organization and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaux and has correspondents in almost all of the world's 240 countries. Since 2004, the Director of BBC News has been Helen Boaden.

The department's annual budget is £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. Through the BBC English Regions, BBC News has regional centres across England as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. All regions and nations produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.

Radio and television operations are broadcast from BBC Television Centre in West London, though they will move to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in Central London in 2012. Television Centre houses all domestic, global, and online news divisions within one main newsroom. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London.