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2) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson:
- Conflict - Syrian war
- Progress - US election
- Disaster - Hurricane Matthew
- Consequence - Brexit
- Prominence - US election
- Novelty - Sam Allardyce being fired
3) It uses a British soldier getting killed which would generate an audience of those who are British as it is something that is to do with the nation and cultural. It is a more appropriate story to use as it is linked with British culture + their views and ideologies.
4) The process of filtering information prior to dissemination. This process is usually done via the editor, but the gatekeeping process could be seen to be more than simply an editor choosing one story over another, it could also refer to how journalist select certain
lines of questioning, or use some words over others to describe people and event.
5)
- Bias through selection and omission
- Bias through placement
- Bias by headline
- Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles
- Bias through use of names and titles
- Bias by choice of words
6) News is now published without being regulated or in order of importance. Stories can now be published at any time online whenever they're released on social media websites which can be done through citizen journalism or other sources. It makes it easier to access the stories before they're out on traditional media sources.
7) Black people in America who are getting killed by the police and the people who are there during the incident are recording it and posting it on social media.
8) Complete the task on the last page of the Factsheet regarding Sky News and Twitter:
- What does this reveal about how Sky views Twitter as a news source?
More people are likely to post something on their social media device to share it which can target a wider audience rather than giving in to Sky to publish.
- What does it say about how news is being produced?
There is less professional news stories by journalists being published and people are more likely to go online to get their news stories from online sources where citizen journalism has been used to get the story. Even now on traditional sources such as the news on TV, citizen journalism is used to present stories.
- What role does the audience have in this process?
The audience now has more free will and can decide how they want to interact with the web and in this being the case they can now post up whatever they want which causes there to be a decline in professional journalism.
- Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?
The quality of news will decrease and won't look as professional but there will also be a certain level of truth and accuracy that citizen journalism may not be able to capture as a result of person recording going to find out both sides of the story.
Final tasks
9) I think that the news values are as important when it comes to new and digital media but have changed in order to support the way news is delivered online compared to it being delivered through a news bulletin on the BBC News.
10) Immediacy - There is now more urgency in getting news from online sources as there is no need to go through a long process in order to present the news.
Amplitude - Larger events can now been seen online whilst streaming or even people using Snapchat to show what is going on and therefore posted online.
Frequency - Stories to do with black lives and black people in America is now more frequent due to people posting more videos to do with this story which increases the frequency of this topic online.
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