Build the wall analysis

http://www.cjr.org/feature/build_the_wall_1.php?page=all

Section 1:
He is comparing the two together both newspapers and internet, discussing the fact how the internet is free but if we all think about it and come across together more people will be enticed to purchase the newspapers.

Section 2:
There is a discussion about newspapers revenue, and is questioning the fact that readers identify the immediate digitized version as superior, but pay nothing. Therefore, if many people have it as a norm to read the times on a daily basis, those who want a desire for the product will pay for it. If it's not free any more. So it could possibly be argued that newspapers cannot completely be dead. 

 Section 3: 
 This section is very promising as when the newspaper industry started to use the website they valued the free internet and acknowledge that it is advertising for newspapers. He discusses the beginning of a new revenue stream for newspapers. He states that if done properly, readers can be 'induced' to accept an online subscription to a newspaper.  He uses a good example: 10% of 210.000 Sun readers, for example, who pay a subscription rate less than half the price of home delivery, would represent about $2.5 million. Even though 10% of the many thousands pay for it, this still amounts to a high revenue for the newspapers. He has the vision and states if someone dreams it it can happen in a sense. 

Section 4: 
In this section he considers the outcomes and positive results for when the two newspapers 'the times' and 'the post' go ahead and build 'that wall'. In addition, there was reassurance that they can risk going behind the pay wall without the local readers getting free national, international, and cultural reporting from the national papers. He continues by adding that if the news is revolved around the cover state and local issues, sports, and finance this would generate enough revenue to maintain a slip and paid 'metro desk'.

Overall, I believe that what he's arguing about is correct to a certain high extent. As he realistically compares between the two newspapers and internets. Clearly he is for newspapers and is in favour with them. As it's the 21st century internet is heavily rising up very fast and this is becoming very stressful for the newspaper industry. But this man is very positive about the newspapers and strongly believe that newspapers cannot die immediately as if they work hard and for example, change the way it is this may create a new wider mass audience. An interesting example he used was the fact that newspapers can change the front covers and revolve around the entertainment industry. This would entice the audience especially the younger audience who would generally be more willing to pick up the newspaper just to read about there favorite celebrities.  As for example, the newspaper would be in color. I believe, his argument is correct and it can work if people are willing to. They can save money by not using as many journalists and step-up their revenue. 

I'd be glad to pay a subscription; hell, I pay subscriptions toward my TV bill to watch English football, and I would be glad to pay for my newspaper online as well. I don't work for free, why should any person think they should receive for free the work of tireless professional journalists? This whole internet fantasy has all the value and charm of a letter addressed to Santa Claus. Pay up, America, and grow up, too!

#49 Posted by Richard Steele on Fri 24 Jul 2009 at 06:18 PM

Agree: this person is in favor with him as he feels for the journalist as they need to work very hard and are professional journalists providing the latest up-to-date news for the public to read. He wants america to pay up and grow up to which shows his concerns of favor with the newspapers subscription. As he does work hard he doesn't work for free, so why should the newspapers not be able to have the opportunity to charge there customers. How else are they going to get there revenue?

The reason NO ONE will pay for news is because print editors and reporters have killed the medium with their terrible writing -- "impacted," "presser," and "newser" are three horrid additions forced on the public lexicon -- and the fact that they didn't report ten years of wars, nor "reported" the financial and housing meltdown, nor are reporting on America's infrastructure crisis, nor will they report on healthcare.

But by Jove I can read in depth every time Sarah Palin empties her trash or another D-list celebrity dies from drugs or about Michelle Obama's latest fashion -- NONE of which any of us care about paying for.

#56 Posted by zaine_ridling on Sun 26 Jul 2009 at 08:09 PM

Disagree: this person feel that no one would be willing to pay for the newspapers purely to do with the journalists as they have 'terrible writing' she adds by saying that they haven't reported financial data or about america's crisis and healthcare. Which doesn't clearly make her want to pay as probably her money isn't used to a high extent wisely. Also, she adds about celebrities such as Michelle Obama's latest fashion that doesn't make her want to pay money. But the funny thing is on the article, newspapers wanted to revolve story headings typically around entertainment to grasp the younger viewers. But they are the ones who aren't working, the older ones are more concerned with in depth views which rightly so the journalist are not providing. 

Newspaper companies run a business, and businesses need to make money. They need to cut cost and/or find other revenue sources to stay in business. There are news websites that offer premium contents for paid subscription, such as Wall Street Journal. But a large percentage of the contents are free because there won't be enough visiting to generate any meaningful money through advertisements otherwise. In other words, free contents act as "search engine optimization" to bring in traffic from search engines as well as getting repeat visitors. Balancing the two (paid vs. free), with system in place to measure revenue and cost in real-time will separate the survivors and those headed for extinction.

#61 Posted by Phil on Tue 28 Jul 2009 at 05:11 PM

Agree: he is in favor as rightly so the newspapers are a business which need to make a certain amount of revenue and they need to fund there costs through something or somewhere. He adds that the free contents act as 'search engine optimization' to bring in traffic from search engines as well as getting repeat visitors. He balances the paid and free and believes that the system in place measures revenue and cost in real-time. Therefore he agree's as pay roll system is a useful way to generate loyal consumers revenue. 


Finally, In my own opinion I agree to a certain extent that newspapers need to put online content behind a pay wall in order to survive. As this technology is increasingly very highly when the latest news comes on the TV and they're showing a live footage usually, in most cases it's a mere human being filming the footage through it's telephone device. The journalist can't be everywhere at the right time and right place. Different people experience different things because they are in that right time frame. Therefore newspapers generate money by using that footage or image. It doesn't mean to say that journalist will come to an end. Because, to be honest many newspapers are read by thousands each day when they commute to work or school and with advertisers increasing the newspapers are earning there revenue successfully. Therefore it's not crucial for the newspapers to form a payroll because only the loyal consumers which in the article would be 10% would pay for the subscription. However, I don't believe it's a necessity to have payroll's as they already generate from advertisers which in color would be very high paid. As older people would be more likely to pay, they won't be satisfied as the newspapers content are revolved mostly around celebs as they want to attract a young mass audience. But this is becoming frustrating for the older consumers who are fed up and don't want to pay to read about fashion. If they would have pay roll the journalists should come up with very in depth brilliant stories that would entice the audiences to pay and read the pay roll subscription otherwise it would be a waste of time for those who are willing to spend there money on newspapers as the internet is purely free to read the news on.

New and digital media #11

Social networks to face government grilling over suicide promotion

The culture secretary is expected to demand greater action from networks over sites promoting self-harm and suicide

Tallulah Wilson, 15, died after being hit by a train in St Pancras station. Photograph: Eggmedia/PA

Culture secretary Maria Miller is to call on social networks such as Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook to crack down on cyberbullying in a dedicated summit scheduled for the next few weeks.

The plans follow the suicide of a London schoolgirl, Tallulah Wilson, who had spent months accessing blogs about self-harm and suicide on Tumblr beforehand.

Her mother, Sarah Wilson, described Tallulah having entered "a world where the lines between fantasy and reality became blurred", and called on companies to "withdraw their advertising from those sites who continue to host inappropriate self-harming and suicide-promoting blogs to stop this poison spreading".

Miller is expected to echo Wilson's call, and demand that social networks be more proactive about tackling content which could be harmful to younger users.

The government is reportedly feeling emboldened having won the fight over filters on the internet, and is now aiming to do the same thing for social media sites.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/27/social-networks-to-face-government-grilling-over-suicide-promotion


To summarise, social networking sites now are being claimed as the reason for some deaths for young teens. There is going to be action taken now as cyber bullying has increased. As a London school girl was posting things on a social networking site about self-hard and suicide on tumblr, people failed to acknowledge this and it was too late. Therefore the social networking sites need to be more proactive about tackling content which can be harmful for other young users. 

New and digital media #10

Schools monitoring on-line bullying with slang translation software

Program used at 1,400 schools, which also tracks self-harm, checks internet communications against dictionary of slang

More than a thousand British schools are monitoring pupils' online communication for bullying and self-harm using software that analyses and translates slang for teachers.

The software uses a constantly updated dictionary which includes words that most adults would not understand. These include acronyms such as "gnoc" (get naked on camera) and "dirl" (die in real life) and words such as Bio-Oil, a commercial product which can be used by children who self-harm to reduce the appearance of scarring.

The program also monitors more conventional vocabulary used in bullying such as homophobia and taunts of "terrorist" at children of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent.

The software is part of an education package made by Impero. Jonathan Valentine, a developer, said the program had alerted teachers to potential suicides.

"We originally developed the software to deal with misbehaviour, but we decided to focus on e-safety and came up with the idea of a dictionary of certain words and phrases," he told the Times Educational Supplement.

To summarise, as majority of young people are using a lot of slang. Which teachers can't understand. Therefore Jonathan Valentine who developed the software translates slang for teachers so they understand what the pupils fully say. It's consistently updated which consists of a lot words that adults fail to understand. Such as: "gnoc" (get naked on camera). 

I believe this is very useful for the teachers as they can prevent someone from being hurt and stop violent abuse from happening. This would be a really good way to interact.

The future of newspapers

From the article I just read, the point I summarised and gained was how the newspapers are falling down immaculately which are rising concerns for the newspapers owners. Philip Meyer calculates that the first quarter of 2043 will be the moment when newsprint dies in America young people are getting their news on-line. This therefore shows the pathway of the future as we are currently living in the 21st Century when people can stream the news whenever they want however they want i:e (tablet, phone, computer) there is no need for people to spend there money and purchase newspapers when they already have an alternative way of reading the daily news. Even though this is happening newspapers companies are trying very hard to encourage and entice people to read the newspapers. For example in the article I gathered that newspapers are focussing more towards entertainment, lifestyle and subjects that may seem more relevant to people's daily lives than international affairs and politics are. Therefore they'll be able to attract a younger audience as majority for them are not interested in politics and international fairs, newspapers are pulling a good trick by revolving it around entertainment as this may entice the young audience to start reading it. Another way in which they are trying to save newspapers are through spending much less on journalism as this is very costly, therefore this shows how the newspapers owners/directors know themselves that they aren't doing as successfully well due to the emerge of the internet. As the internet is a seductive medium that supposedly matches buyers with sellers and proves to advertisers that their money is well spent. So this is indicating that if advertisers want to spend their money on newspapers they'd be wasting their money, but through internet they have a higher chance of gaining viewers to notice their advert. Therefore all in all the newspapers aren't doing financially well and this is also show cased how peoples employment in the newspapers industry fell by 18% between 1990 and 2004.

Do you agree with its view that it is a 'cause for concern, but not for panic'?
I agree with this statement that it is a cause for concern, but not for panic. Not for panic in a sense that newspapers cannot argue the fact that every single person worldwide will stop reading the newspaper. Because, in the long-term adults or older people when they are commuting for instance. They may want to find to do something useful as they may be bored. Because they're going underground this may result in lack of internet connection or no service at all. Therefore, this would make it the individuals habit to pick up the 'free' newspapers and read it. To be able to get to know what's happening in the world internationally and in London. Moreover, as free newspapers gain loads of people reading there papers as its free. Advertisers would be more willing therefore in the long-term to use the newspapers as they know when people are commuting (middle-class workers) they'd notice the advert and therefore the companies money is well spent as they know thousands of people read the free newspapers in the train stations. Moreover, as internet is increasing substantially this does result in people having to pay and subscribe to the internet and give in monthly bills. As the recession is going high people are very scared to spend their money, this may become a huge panic for people in the future and may exclude them from buying the subscription for the internet. Therefore, they'd be more likely to read the free newspapers. I believe it's a cause for concern as newspapers revenue has already fallen down numerously, however as they're intentionally focussing more on entertainment this may drift the younger audiences to start acknowledging the internet. But I strongly disagree that it's not something they should panic about, as the internet can at times be an unreliable source and as the newspaper has evolved from decades ago people already built that trust with the newspapers and would still be more likely to rely on it and read it. 

New and digital media #9

Radio Times seeks to fuel digital success with print profitsRadio Times, which accounts for 60% of its publisher's profits, is undergoing a transformation to woo younger readers

While other magazine publishers chase the digital-savvy generation of under-25s Radio Times is swimming against the tide somewhat, targeting a slightly older, thirtysomething demographic with its online products. But then the average age of its print readers is 57.

The weekly is the standout title in Immediate Media's 56-strong magazine portfolio, accounting for 60% of the company's total adjusted profits of £26.5m (up a quarter year-on-year), according to the most recent public financial report for the year to 31 March. "It is the jewel in the crown, a phenomenally robust brand that everyone knows and we can move that into digital services targeting the late 20s to 40s," says Tom Bureau, chief executive of Immediate Media. "We're not focusing on 16 to 24s, we think that's where social TV apps and those services are focusing their attention. We need to be laser-targeted."

The venerable listings title is touted as the most profitable magazine in the UK, and Bureau could choose to milk its impressively slow decline for years ("it is very robust, very few people leave the title, we're talking mortality"). Instead it epitomises the publisher's ambition to turn its print titles into multi-platform brands. Radio Times recently invested heavily in Discover TV, an iPad app (soon on iPhone and Android) targeting 30- to 35-year-olds with Buzzfeed-style "best of" recommendation lists. It costs £2.99 a month, but the company is also offering a cut-down level of access with a "freemium" version.

New and digital media #8

BBC targets social media users with Instagram video news

Corporation hopes to reach new audiences as mobile and tablet viewing figures overtake desktop

BBC News is stepping up its efforts to reach new audiences on social media platforms after mobile and tablet viewing figures overtook desktop use for the first time in December.

On 16 January, BBC News launched Instafax, a new short-form video news service delivered to Instagram users. The project is a month-long experiment, with three 15-second videos uploaded a day, intended to serve as a roundup of the day's news.

The name is a throwback to the BBC’s former Ceefax service – the world’s first teletext service that ran on UK television until 2012. This is described as the updated version of a text-based, short-form news service for the digital age

New and Digital Media #7

BBC news chief: problems facing local newspapers 'not our fault'
James Harding responds to calls for BBC to rein in coverage, telling press to focus on web rivals such as Google or Facebook

James Harding, the BBC News director, believes the corporation has an obligation to deliver local news and the problems facing local newspapers are "not the BBC's fault".

Harding, the former Times editor, in his first public speech since joining the BBC in August last year, said he thought the view that the corporation should limit its local news output for fear of damaging local newspapers was mistaken.

He added that the BBC thrived on competition with local papers and would do "anything to help" them, but they should be worrying about internet rivals such as Google and Facebook, not the corporation. As the internet is rising highly on a daily basis people today are more immune to finding out the news by themselves anytime any day of the week. Therefore, today newspapers locally aren't doing well. For example, the papers that are posted to my doors in the morning are now free. Previously, it used to be sold normally for 80p. But now, as there is no success of the newspapers they come to our door free of charge because only then would the house holds read the local news. In this article, newspapers were blaming the BBC.

New and Digital Media #6

Smartphone explosion in 2014 will see ownership in India pass US

China and India will add more than 400m new smartphone users amid growth for FirefoxOS and Android, 
forecasts Mediacells

India college students check Facebook accounts on smartphones in Mumbai, India. The country will gain more than 200m new smartphone users in 2014, taking total use there to over 360m according to a new forecast. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Phone users in India and China will together buy more than 500m smartphones in 2014, comprising half of the total that will be sold in 47 key countries, according to a new forecast.

They will also add more than 400m new users of internet-enabled phones to the global network, vaulting India ahead of the US to make it the second-largest country for smartphone use in the world. This shows how the vast majority are very technological as the new phones and upgrading is being shown through more smartphones. Even older people today, feel that smartphones are something for them and that it will be easier as it's got the whole package such as the email on there phone. 

The impact of new and digital media news

Task 1

	NEWS
Impact on audience	Impact on institution	Theories & debates
v  Can access news easily anytime v  Information they get may be inaccurate v  Many sources of new v  They can become their own journalist ‘citizen journalist’	v  Audience numbers are down for traditional institutions v  Bad reputation on the institution v  Revenue taken by different institutions  such as: google v   Printing has considerably fallen down	v    Paretos law as 80% of audience get news from 20% of institution v  ‘The information age castells’ v  ‘Most important medium’

Task 2

E-Media

BBC: 
The industry: Mass Media
Predecessors: British Broadcasting Company
Founded: 18th October 1922
Founders: John Reith & George Villiers
Area Served: Worldwide
Revenue: £5.06billion
Owners: The crown (publicly owned)

ITV:
Launched: 22 September 1955
Owned by: ITV plc, STV Group plc, UTV Media plc
Audience Share: ITV Network
Country: United Kingdom
Headquaters: The London Studios, Waterloo, London, SE1 9LT

Five:
Launched: 30 March 1997
Owned by: Northern & Shell
Channels: 5USA, 5*, Channel 5+1
Formerly called: Five from 2002-2010 now, Channel Five:2010-present

Channel 4:
Channel four television corporation
News: Channel 4 News
Audience Share: Channel 4= 4.9% Channel 4+1=0.9%

Print:

Telegraph Media Group:
Editor: Tony Gallagher
Political Alignment: Centre-right conservative
Circulation: 541,036 (Feb 2013)
Newspaper: Daily Telegraph

The Sun:
Type: Daily newspaper
Owner: News UK
Editor: David Dinsmore
Founded: 1964
Circulation: 2,281,301 (July 2013~)

Trinity Mirror PLC:
Type: Public
Industry: Publishing
Founded: 1903
Revenue: £761.5million (2010)
KP: David Grigson (chairman of the board), CEO= Simon Fox
Products: National and regional newspapers, magazines
Operating income: £138.0 million
Profit: £113.3 million (2010).

Broadcasting

Google
Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Revenue: US$ 50.18 Billion (2012)
Operating Income: US$ 12.76 Billion (2012)
Profit: US$ 10.74 Billion (2012)
Total Assets: US$ 93.80 Billion (2012)
Total Equity: US$ 71.72 Billion (2012)
News: Google News, through Google search

Yahoo
Founders: Jerry Yang and David Filo
Revenue: US$ 4.98 Billion (2012)
Operating Income: US$ 566 Million (2012)
Net Income: US$ 3.94 Billion (2012)
Total assets: US$ 17.10 Billion (2012)
Total Equity: US$ 14.56 Billion (2012)
News: Yahoo News

Twitter
Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone
Revenue: US$ 317 Million (2012)
Users: 200 Million (active Feb 2013)

There are always concerns about new technology. In your view, what are the possible benefits and problems attached to the internet? Intro, Both sides argue, 3 theorists or theories, your opinion

Web 2.0 wasn't available in the last decade or so, but now it is there are possible benefits for people today including young, old, politicians and celebrities. For the young people, internet can provide to be a useful tool as they may use it on a daily basis for school purposes such as: Blogger for Media Studies. The internet aids in providing useful information to students today such as: looking up and reading books on-line, and finding useful sites like Bitesize to help with students revision. The internet is the most powerful and popular source used by millions of people. For adults, it makes it easier to make on-line transactions from the bank rather than going to the bank in reality. It's proved to be safe hence why people use it more so often. There are also social media which are used by the majority of the public for instance from my NDM research: "twitter is becoming highly successful as it's expected to jump to more than £180 billion by end of 2015". this evidently shows how more and more people are immune from the internet and attracted to use social networking sites such as Twitter. Using the internet (social media) is useful for many celebrities such as Miley Cyrus: when she released her new album 'Bangerz' a week before she'd always upload pictures in line with the album to keep her fans enticed and promote her album. Which majority of the time proves to work as it's coming directly from the celebrity which persuades the fans more so to purchase the new and released album. For instance, if it's from twitter she'd promote it by using the famous 'hashtag' and get it trending in the media so people are aware that she's releasing an album. Therefore, for famous celebrities like Miley the internet from there perspective proves to be a very beneficial source for their career wise. Because without the internet, it would be literally really difficult for the celebrities to promote there music in reality.

From pareto's law which is commonly used by the institutions and people, which is believed to be the 80/20 rule. As 80% of the media is controlled by 20% of the institutions. 80% of companies profits come form 20% of its customers. Therefore 80% of company's profits come from 20% of customers. The pareto's principle helps us to realize that the majority of results come from minority of inputs. But in order for companies to receive high revenue this means 20% which is us are using the internet to a very high extent in order for the 80% to gain the income. This therefore shows, how majority of the public are indeed on the internet and how successful it is.

The disadvantage 

New and digital #5

Viral video chat:Christmas

There's been a big increase in the number of people who have stopped sending expensive Christmas cards this year and turned to video instead to express their greetings.

Holderness, couldn't resist putting on their Christmas jammies for a rap video, which also features their children, Lola and Penn Charles. Penn has just left his job to join forces with Kim to start a production company in Raleigh, North Carolina. With more than 3 million people viewing their Christmas effort on YouTube, it could be the best business ad they will ever make.

If that was a good day at the office for the Holderness family, KSN Wichita anchor Justin Kraemer had his worst one. Justin got the sack after turning into Ron Burgundy when he signed off at the end of the news on Saturday evening. Listen to what he says as the closing credits roll … (Caution: contains un-Christmassy language)

In the past few years as the internet has increased heavily, this has moved many people to convert to the internet even seasons such as xmas. As they hit instagram and twitter to show there family xmas pictures or to say a well wish to all the fans etc out there. 

New and digital media #4

                                  Farewell 2013, the year of living with uncertainty

Printed newspapers, doesn't look promising. 

Thus (to take a notional example), shopping trends might indicate that, at current rates, our otherwise blighted high streets will be choked by Amazon delivery vans come 2024. But who'll point out that a landscape so infernally blighted will repelhis is what is called, in all common sense, a non-fulfilling prophecy, excitable tabloid extrapolations turned ridiculous down a long tunnel of blinkered vision. Which brings us to 2013, the media year of trending obsessively – and living uncertainly.

Nevertheless, managers at both the Telegraph and Guardian have reasons for cheer, and perhaps for surprise. Year-on-year, they're only down 0.38% and 1.93% respectively, exceeding expectations and a clutch of damned trends. The paywalled Times, in spite of hanging on to a £1 cover price, has lost 3.55% in a sector where the Independent and the Financial Times – each down nearly 14% respectively – throw broader sector calculations askew. There's reason for raised eyebrows as well as celebration here.

As guardian and the times are online, many people can go online and check the newspaper as the technology is vastly increasing. This leaves disappointment to the other papers who are even dropping to a £1 cover price, they still have lost 3.55% in the financial times and are doing so yearly.

New and Digital #3

                               Twitter more than triples its UK revenues to £46m

Social network expected to make more than £180m by the end of 2015, according to the eMarketer report. 

Twitter is becoming highly successful as it's expected to jump to more than £180bn by end of 2015, it would make £46.3m this year, from advertising and licensing. This would essentially beat Google's UK digital ad revenues as they will be £2.6bn this year, which is expected to rise to £3.4bn by the end of 2015. With coming after Facebook, Facebook are only generated £333million in revenue, and only forcasted to make £516m by 2015. This shows how fast Twitter UK is growing and as it's popular amongst politicians, celebrities and professional people.