Halfterm Homework

What is a citizen journalist?
A citizen journalist is anyone in the public who plays an active role in collecting, reporting and analyzing news. citizen journalism in often confused with civic journalism.

What was one of the first examples of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’?

one of the first examples of news being gererated by ordinary people was in 2009. The pserson who generated this was a woman called Sara Mills. She made a news article on "The rise of UGC".

List some of the formats for participation that are now offered by news organisations.

Chat rooms

Blogs with comments

Message boards etc.

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

There are many differences between proffesionally shot footage and taken first-hand footage. The main difference is that nowadays, UGC is much more hard-hitting. Also it is much more emotive.

What is a gatekeeper?

A gatekeeper has an important role when it comes to news. A gatekeeper decides whether texts will or will not be published on news and they decide what will be broadcasted amongst the audience(s).

How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?A gatekeepers roll has changed a lot over the years. Before gatekeepers only had access to certain things in news, they were low-paid and there role wasnt as important, now they have a really important role in that they decide what news is published and what isnt.

What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC?

The main concern held by journalists is that the rise of UGC has grown hugely. Journalist are hardly no longer needed because UGC is everywhere now and everyone is producing there own news. They are gathering there own information and are oing there own thing.

Learner Responce To Essay

The institutions are having to have difficulties, with such competition in new and digital media, institutions are struggling to keep up with the competition. They are trying so hard to appeal to to their audiences, that it is like audiences are in control of the institutions.

Audiences of these institutions in new and digital media are so involved in new and digital media that they love it, it is almost as if everything is based around them and they get all the satisfaction, whilst the instutions are struggling to keep appealing to the audiences.

In a way it seems as if in new and digital media, audiences have more power than the actual instituions whilst in traditional media, audiences could just take in information and it wasnt as fun, so institutions didnt have such a big audience.

Bush H/W

- What do you think has been the impact of this explosion in the many different ways and formats we can now recieve news?

- The audiences have become so powefull in recent years since technology improved and new and digital media came along.

- I think that the news rely to much on their consumers/audiences for stories and are becoming to vulnerable.

- Audiences are becoming so powerfull through UGC and it is effecting the way institutions are being run.

- The internet is becoming so powerfull now that audiences are recieving news online, rather than going out of their way to buy newspapers. They are just subscribing to the news websites and recieving news from their.

- However, traditional media are still fighting against new and digital media, as to persuading audiences that they should still go out and buy newspapers.

- Traditional media is still popular with recieving news because audiences are always watching television and you have news channels such as;

THE BBC NEWS
ITV NEWS
SKY NEWS
CHANNEL 4 NEWS
BBC 24 HOUR NEWS

- On conclusion, I think that with new and digital mefia, institutions are becoming to reliant on audiences and audiences are bennifiting more than institutions.