JMSC0101: Principles of Journalism and the News Media

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JMSC0101Principles of Journalism and the News
Media

• Professor Ying Chan
• September 25, 2008

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The Paradigm Change

• Multimedia forms challenging old media
• Readers gaining control
• Fast diminishing role of intermediaries
• From the read web to the read-write web
• Information access anytime anywhere

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New Media Traits

• Allows information to be
• Individualized - the Daily Me newspaper
• Self-paced -
• Immediate - on-demand access
• Searchable content -
• Secure - end-to-end privacy/authentication

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The New Media Ecosystem

• Tears down cost barriers to technology
• Allows more people to participate in content
  creation
• Decentralizes power and influence
• Changes economic patterns
• Growing diversity of sources

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Old MediaOne Way Communication t

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TV Anytime Anywhere

• PVR / DVR easy recording, pausing, viewing,
  copying
• Delivery by traditional broadcasters, cable or
  satellite but also by telecoms via fiber-optic
  networks or by ISPs and the Internet
• Delivery on web and via mobile devices.

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The Death of TV?

• We build content that can be delivered to all
  devices. The device the consumer receives it on
  is actually immaterial to us,
• John Varney, Chief Technology Officer BBC

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New Media Takes Over
Blogs
The media landscape has changed in 10 years - the
lifetime of a printing press...
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Time to Reach 50M People

• Radio 38 years
• Television 13 years
• PC 16 years
• Internet 5 years
• Mobile
• Podcasting

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We Are All Digital
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The Media Revolution
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New Media

Digital
Interactive

• Perfect storage
• Perfect transmission
• Global
• Open Source

Multimedia

• User choice
• Interactive
• Adaptability

• Rich Sensory Experience

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Wikipedia

• Web platform
• Interactive
• Collaborative
• User centered
• Access anytime anywhere
• Audience-shaped content
• Its a READ-WRITE web

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Old Media Challenged

• Falling circulation
• Falling advertising
• Falling credibility
• Falling relevance

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Average Circulation of U.S. Daily
NewspapersWeekday and Sunday editions, 1990 to
2006
Average Circulation of U.S. Daily Newspapers
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Newspapers Need to Save Themselves

• Information in newsrooms needs to be more
  manageable and searchable
• Archives need to be annotated for easy research
• Become more reactive to readers and what others
  are saying and doing.
• Using web 2.0 features to connect with readers
  and other journalists

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Innovations at Gannett

• Include non-journalists in newsgathering
• Gather and disseminate news and information
  across all platforms, 24/7.
• Mining online community discussions for stories
• Rename Newsroom as Information Centre
• creating Internet databases of calendar listings
  and other non-news utilities

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• NYT to publish first user generated contents
• Wall Street Journal Launches Social Net

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• Internet usage in Asia

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• Digital cable TV
• Digital satellite TV
• Digital terrestrial TV
• iTV

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• Audiences are moving toward information on
  demand, to media platforms and outlets that can
  tell them what they want to know when they want
  to know it.
• The State of the Media, 2008