Notes on Impact of NDM on the News Industry Lecture

• The speed of everything is due to smartphones
• Email, Twitter, Facebook - ways for news journalists to get news
• Trending hashtags are important for news journalists to get news
• Increase of platforms to broadcast news on 
• The opportunities of audience interactions with UGC can have positives and negatives
• Twitter is a source of breaking news
• Whitney Houston's death was not reported by news agencies at first. The News agencies reported it after looking into a claim from a Twitter user about the death
• "False information spreads just like accurate information" Farida Vis of the Wold Economic Forum
• Verification of pictures are needed and then they are often manipulated
• As newspapers and televisions news are in decline, social media offers a platform to share news
• In the past, there was appointment news where you viewed news at a certain time e.g. 10 o'clock news, 6 o'clock news. However, now, news can be accessed at any time
• News reporters value public interaction
• Sensationalistic
• symbiosis between mainstream media and social media
• taste and decency is a western concept - Al Jazeera shows very graphic content
• Western news looks at neutrality and balanced arguments while Non western platforms look at the betterment of society
• USA cannot show the point of death on the news
• Al Jazeera was the first outlet to broadcast the Bin Laden videos which led to them being banned in the USA - Al Jazeera's values are the truth and showing everything
• Al Jazeera in the UK, does not need to follow OFCOM
• BBC is funded by the licensing fee, SKY is funded by Murdoch, Al Jazeera is funded by the royal family
• Journalism is losing specialism
• Social media creates a social sphere
• government uses social media for surveillance - impedes democracy
• bad news sells
• techno optimists believe social media is a tool for democracy
• citizen journalism changes the way media outlets release news
• In the past, it was the journalists who bought the news however, now, their is a symbiotic relationship between the public and journalists
• ethical considerations - graphic? intrusion or invasion of privacy? 
• airing graphic content is tasteless as well as dehumanizing and disrespectful to the family
• Positive of UGC - acts as a witness to the truth
• Negatives of UGC - quality isnt always great, difficulty of identifying source, cannot be published without verification of time, place and people, accuracy?, agenda?
• mainstream media relied on social media
• integration between social media and news