Wednesday, 18 January 2017

LO1 - 10 News Providers (Different Mediums)

TV

ITV News
BBC News
Channel 4
Channel 5
CNN
Fox News
NBC
ABC News
Sky News
ESP News
CBS News
Al Jazeera

All parts of conglomerates, some from the same one (e.g. Fox and Sky in News Corp)

Radio

Similar to TV
Radio UK
Radio Today
TalkSport - Wireless Group (sports)
Classic FM
Apple Music
Capital FM - Global Media (celebrity gosisp)
Hallam FM - Bower Media (local news, celebrity gossip)

Print

Britain:
Guardian (general news) – Guardian Media Group
Telegraph (general news, broadsheet) – Freedom Communications
Times, Sun - News Corp

USA:
Wall Street Journal (focuses on business news, broadsheet), LA Times – News Corp
USA Today – Gannett Company
The Washington Post – Nash Holdings LLC

Australia:
Herald Sun (celebrity news and gossip, tabloid)

Tabloids - smaller and less serious, social, celebrity, sport

Broadsheet - larger, talks about more serious issues), politics

Web

Other main providers are big comglomerates, e.g. BBC, Sky etc.
Daily Mail becoming most accessed news site


Citizen Journalism
When non-professionals write news, e.g:
Huffington Post (less biased - plurality in the media)
BuzzFeed (gossip website) (owned by AOL - America Online)
Wired (technology)
Independent.co.uk

Social Media

Major Conglomerates also have social media accounts, to direct news straight to consumers, and to engage with the audience
Snapchat - Used by: Daily Mirror, Hallam FM, the Sun
Mainly funded through advertising, so commercial companies

Press Association

Gathers news, then sells is to other companies, operates primarily in the UK and Ireland

Getty Images

Stock image and footage company, collects and buys images to sell to consumers and companies

Reuters

Gathers global news and sells it to broadcasters

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