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Print media forms of journalism would consist of newspapers, magazines and journals. Large names in this field consist of those such as The Guardian, The Daily Mail and the Sun.  Print media is a traditional Pre web 2.0 form of news distribution however it is becoming more and more irrelevant as many traditional newspapers are choosing to swap the costs of producing and distributing newspapers to instead publish the news they find to specialised websites which are becoming much more accessible use to black box technologies (a technology capable of performing multiple functions such as smart phones, tablets and computers)

The print media market has many issues however which are not shared by many others (especially web enabled citizen journalism.) Firstly, the companies which publish the news within these industries are rarely public service (not supported in anyway by the government) and therefore have no obligations to report the whole truth behind their coverage. This has resulted in most print organisations now having a strong political bias such as the Sun and Mail being right wing while the Guardian and Observer foster a left-wing ideology

Radio and Television broadcasting are another form of pre- web 2.0 reporting which again is being phased out by the rise in internet journalism (however not as quickly as print media is)

Notable names within Broadcasting journalism would be BBC News (Both the television show and radio station), SKY News, and ITV news. A definite advantage to broadcast journalism within the United Kingdom would be that the BBC (British Broadcasting corporation) are run under a public service structure meaning that they are given funding through the taxpayer (in this case the BBC are funded through the public purchasing Television licences) with the understanding that the content which they present will have no significant bias and will be as close as possible to an accurate portrayal of real life events. This means that being informed by the BBC is likely the most accurate (Non internet enabled) way of being presented with the news.

Web 2.0 introduced the British Isles with an internet access which could access interactive features such as video and advertising which naturally provided large media conglomerates with a whole new way of reaching their audience. This means that large well known organisations have expanded into web journalism such as The Sun, The BBC and The Guardian.

This is not the only exiting feature of internet journalism however, as that its easy now for normal people (as appose to professional Journalists) to give their interpretations of the news in a possess known as citizen journalism. Several of the pioneers of this process have been The Huffington post and Buzz feed which have found much success in internet journalism and becoming large companies while doing so. Small companies such as these offer much less biased coverage of stories as that the people creating them usually have little to gain from manipulating stories however it is important to remember that this is defiantly something that changes as these companies expand and become worth large businesses, for example both Buzz Feed and The Huffington Post are now understood to be fairly left leaning in their coverage of the News.

There is one large problem with online consumption of the news (specifically through social media such as Facebook, Reddit and Twitter) That being “Fake News” or what the communities of these respective website has dubbed “Clickbait”. This consists of an organisation publish a misleading or in some cases completely false headlines in an attempt to garner views from people who are invested in the stories (for this reason the stories usually concern a well-known celebrity. This means that people who consume their news fully through social media are likely to believe some form of untrue story.

News conglomerates:

A news conglomerate (much like any other type of conglomerate structured business) is made up of one parent company which owns several smaller subsidiaries and can therefore take part in vertical and horizontal integration, however as appose to any other type of conglomerate a news business of this type holds a large amount of power through the subtle political bias that may be prevalent in their work.

The best example of a news conglomerate would be Rupert Murdoch's infamous "News Corp" empire which controls many news publications and broadcast programs such as Sky News, Fox News, The News Of The World, The New York Post, Wall Street Journal and The Sun.




Difference in news Writing

ETHICS STORM:

Buzz feed’s publication of Donald Trump ‘hotel romp’ dossier sparks debate over media ethics after other news outlets declined material because claims could not be verified

Headline from The Sun 11the of January 2017 Image Below:

'Water SportsGate’ And Donald Trump Dossier: Allegations of ‘More Than One Tape’

Headline from The Huffington Post 12th of January 2017 image below:

In January 2017 Buzz Feed Inc., an independent news website published a 35-page document which made many unverifiable claims about the trip President Elect (Now President) Donald Trump had recently taken to Russia. The document w\as gradually proved to be mostly untrue but as can be seen above different news sources treated the document as truthful for longer periods of time than others such as The Huffington Post (which is known to be very left leaning and therefore detrimental to the Republican President Elect.)

What is citizen Journalism?

Citizen Journalism is any way in which anyone other than a trained reporter reports on the news. This is typically less biased as that it is not important for anyone who doesn't have a major sway over national or international events to try and impact on the public opinion.

Dan Gillmor:           

The Home Page of Dan Gillmore's website.

Dan Gillmor is an American writer who has written many books bout citizen journalism such as "We The Media" and "Mediaactive". In his work Gillmor mainly focuses on the recent failures of modern journalism (Corruption and Political Bias) and ways that citizen journalism will cleanse reporting of these woes.




The Difference between The coverage of "Water Sports Gate" by The Sun and "Buzz Feed"
The stand out news story of January 2017 was that of Russia's alleged Donald Trump Blackmail document which was leaked on the web by independent news website Buzz Feed Inc. (a Left wing news organisation) Buzz Feed writes its articles is a peer to peer fashion (wherein an article is written as if the writer is speaking to a friend) for example the article where they exposed "water sports gate" is entitled "These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia"

Gate keepers and Protective coverage:

Gate keeping and protective coverage a two difforms of censorship in the media wherein the  news provider