This video is an excellent example of how citizen journalism can produce results that traditional news reporting does not. Andy Baio, outraged at the pepper spraying of a peaceful protest at UC Davis, editied this multi-angle video together from YouTube videos shot at the scene. As Baio notes, best watched in fullscreen HD.
Arrests and Resignations Continue in News Corp. Hacking Scandal – The Takeaway.
Just to keep you up to date with the fascinating twists and turns of this highly relevant news story. Any student who is serious about studying the Media should follow the News Corp scandal story as it unfolds. This explains Media Institutions / Power / Media Gods better than any text book.
‘Bingeing’ girls make Britain among worst in Europe for teenage drinking – Telegraph.
The British Press attacking teenage girls again
David Cameron backs proposals tackling sexualisation of children | Society | The Guardian.
The Conservative Government starts to crack down on advertising & images aimed at influencing children.
Anorexics find Posh a ‘thinspiration’ | Mail Online.
Anyone studying WAGs or anorexia, celebrity or female beauty should be interested in this. Good key word to impress examiners
Twitter is no substitute for proper war reporting – just look at Libya | Media | The Observer.
Just how helpful or harmful is citizen journalism when reporting about war? This is the case in defence of proper war journalism from the professionals rather than relying on social networking sites for information.
Ryan Giggs: How the UK press reported the saga | Media | guardian.co.uk.
Yet more on the media debates and wider issues surrounding privacy and social networking, flagged up by the Ryan Giggs super-injunction case.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3596356/Ryan-Giggs-is-Twitter-Prem-star.html
Very relevant article on the Ryan Giggs Vs Twitter Privacy row. This would be an ideal story to read about and refer to in the A2 Media topics exam.
If you would like to read the content of the Daily without having the app (which is only available in the US), it is available free online. To make it easier, Andy Baio has built an index for it.
Anybody else think it’s weird that The Daily, News Corp’s new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website… but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage!
So I went ahead and made one for them! Introducing, The Daily: Indexed…
via The Daily: Indexed – Waxy.org.
Rupert Murdoch‘s Daily, his new iPad-only news publication launched yesterday in the US. The Guardian‘s review can be found here. Apparently The Times (and the other Murdoch press) has been very positive about it, but as it is behind a paywall I can’t read it or link to it.
To say that media watchers will be keeping a beady eye on the Daily is an understatement. Murdoch’s record on digital publishing has so far been underwhelming, marked by the failure of the social networking site Myspace, and observers are keen to see whether the Daily will fare any better.
Some have written it off as dead on arrival, thanks to its fusion of old and new media. It will be fully digital, but published every night in time for the subscriber to read over morning coffee. “Wonderful! Slower news – and at a higher price,” wrote Scott Rosenberg of Salon before the launch.
via Rupert Murdoch unveils next step in media empire – the iPad ‘newspaper’ | Media | The Guardian.
