NDM Story number 2

Canadian magazines kick out interns after being told to pay them:

 

Summary:

 

 A row has broken out over the practice in Canadafollowing the Ontario government's demand that two magazines - Toronto Life and The Walrus - start paying their interns.

The publisher of both titles, St Joseph Media, was accused by the government of violating provincial labour laws. It responded by dispensing with the internship programmes. Another Toronto-based magazine owned by Torstar, The Grid, reacted by dismissing five unpaid interns. The Walrus offered four-to-six-month internships in which people were expected to work for "approximately 35 hours per week, unpaid." In a notice on its website, the magazine criticised the provincial government, saying it had helped many young Canadians bridge the gap from university to paid-for work. St Joseph's chief executive. Douglas Knight, in an interview with J-Source, said: "Everyone knows that we can't afford it and the magazine industry is just trying to stay alive." He said he would "love to pay" interns, but "we can't even afford to give our regular staff annual cost-of-living increases." Journalists appear to be split on the issue. Some argue that it offers valuable work experience while others view it as an unfair practice.

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Barcroft Media aims for a killing with videos that grab digital natives:

 summary:

With 68.2m views in March, Barcroft TV was the 40th biggest YouTube channel in the world that month, according to industry site Tubefilter. The channel now has more than 460,000 subscribers and 426m lifetime views. Barcroft Media was founded in 2003 by photojournalist Sam Barcroft,who later launched a sister TV production company. Its YouTube channel was initially purely promotional, aimed at persuading more broadcasters to buy the company's content. By late 2012, the channel was averaging 3m views a month, spurring Barcroft to take it more seriously, producing more original shortform video reports "not as an afterthought", but as an important part of the business. Barcroft TV is now the second most popular news channel in the world on YouTube, while the company also distributes its viral videos to sites like MSN, Yahoo Screen, Dailymotion and Chinese service Youku. Like other online video and/or news companies – Vice, The Young Turks and Upworthy for example – Barcroft Media sees itself as serving a youthful audience neglected by traditional media. "A lot of young people have very important views about issues in the world: that's the demographic of people on their phones, and sharing and commenting and interacting," he says. "They're the native internet generation, but they have been completely abandoned by the mainstream media. Our content is designed for them."

My opinion:

Traditional media is dying out, new and digital media is becoming the new weapon in aiming at the audience and getting their attention. 

Case study Powerpoints reviews:

Nadeem: Social media Twitter

. Biggest shifts in the way people now communicate
. major tool of globalization
. top of social networking monopoly
. gained a lot of power
. very dominant
. 500 million users through 2012 statistics
. plays a passive role in consuming media, people relying too much on twitter
. declining in privacy- considered positive feature = citizen journalism
. challenges traditional media example magazines
. Hashtag icon is apart of a large social group, sharing and saving information creates a deeper interaction
. discovery page - the Guardian, BBC news, world wide events being shared on website
. Pluralist view would argue that providing audiences with interactivity (positive effect)
. decline in privacy
. political and social implications
. 'Gate keeping' stories selected that are worth reading
. Marxist = hegemonic new point being provided

Navneet: Impact of New and digital media in Facebook

. 'Global village' Marshall Mcluhan can connect with others world wide
. UK statistics 25-34 year olds - size of audience changed , adults interact not young people
. president Obama used power of FB during 2008 campaign
. Ed Manky- argues privacy concerns
. "The internet is an empowering tool" Al gore
. Tunisia and libya revolution
. Facebook- 5 million users in Egypt
. Government blocked internet access and messaging service
. China strong censorship policy
. 2009 Facebook blocked - government realized power of Facebook

Harpal: Music industry

. Spotify= commercial music streaming service
. launched in 2008
. free app
. empowers audience, less needs of downloading
. access to 20 milllion songs
. 24 million users a month
. advantage- lots of space, can be used on the go, no need to download
. iTunes - apple 2001, media player and media library
. piracy illegally downloading songs- new and digital media contributing to less artists income
. UGC users generated context

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Spotify says it's a matter of time before it overtakes Apple's itunes in Europe: 

Summary of the story: 

Streaming music service declares the fact that it has added 11 million active users in the UK alone in the last four months, meaning it is close to overtaking Apple's itunes as the biggest music service in Europe. Kevin Brown has stated that "some of our partners are saying that Spotify is now generating more revenue each month across Continental Europe than iTunes." This emphasizes the fact that Spotify is now becoming more popular with a larger audience/users. This illustrates the fact that download sales are declining and Spotify is increasing, Brown also mentioned that a "significant amount" of the million new British Spotify users are paying for a subscription, rather than listening to its free, advertising-supported version. According to research, Spotify stated in March 2013 that globally, it had 24 active users, including 6 million paying subscribers. 

Opinion : I think that the fact that spotify is taking over itunes will cause a concern for some musicians and songwriters, as they will be worried about the streaming's ability to sustain artists careers- a sale of 99p itunes download, which spotify stream is much cheaper. 

Nuts Magazine to close: 

The Nuts magazine is to close due to the portrayal of sexism and how women are portrayed through their magazines, The magazine has faced many criticisms due to the portrayal of women and many have argued that the magazine is becoming more like "porn" to the nude images of women, in my opinion I think the fact that the magazine is closing is going extreme, due to the fact that the audience should be used to seeing nude images as women are portrayed in this type of way in many other industries, for example, music videos, films etc, however, it could also be argued that the fact that these magazines are sold in public places (shops) cold effect the younger audience (children) into thinking this is what women are supposed to look like, or into believing that women should be posing nude for money. Therefore, it could be a balanced argument arguing from the negative and positive side. 

Easter Holidays NDM stories :

NDM STORIES- MAGAZINES

Nuts magazine to close

Summary :

Nuts, the weekly that along with arch-rival Zoo shook up the men's magazine market a decade ago but attracted criticism for their sexist portrayal of women, is to close. The magazine has suffered years of sales decline, along with most other paid-for titles in the men's sector. Nuts had a circulation of just over 53,000 in print in the second half of 2013, according to the latest official ABC sales figures, plus nearly 9,000 digital editions. Nuts and Zoo's circulations dropped by one third year on year in the second half of 2013, after both titles' publishers pulled them from Co-op stores. This came after they refused the supermarket chain's demand that both magazines be distributed with modesty bags to shield pictures of naked women from shoppers. Argued that the magazine defined from the outset by publishing more overtly sexual content than more expensive monthly rivals such as Loaded and FHM, which were forced go more downmarket in response.  

opinion : 

more people are becoming disgusted by nude images in magazines. 

More people are now concerned with magazines that display too much nudity. Newspaper publishers use e-commerce technology on website photos

summary :

The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror are experimenting with technology that turns online photographs into adverts, When people visit pages on the papers' websites, the technology scans the content and works out the most relevant advertisements to display. Then it overlays images of products that readers may wish to buy on the pictures. Paqvalén said other groups - such as The Guardian, DMGT and theHuffington Post, plus the magazine publisher Gruner+Jahr - are also planning to experiment with the technology. 

Conde Nast to replace House and Garden and easy living online editions: 

Summary : Condé Nast is launching a online lifestyle offering closely resembling Pinterest, House, replacing its House & Garden and Easy Living websites. The website is billing as a "sophisticated design, decoration, food and lifestyle" website. The Easy Living website audience – it had an average of 192,000 monthly unique users in the three months to the end of January 2014, according to Google Analytics figures – will be automatically redirected to House. Condé Nast is aiming to build this figure to 300,000 within 18 months and 500,000 in three to four years.

My Opinion : Magazines are now starting to adapt more to new and digital media to get more views and more users, this is done by creating websites. 

NDM STORIES 

1: 20 best iPhone and iPad apps and games this week:

Summary: This week's selection includes pregnancy tracking, vintage newspaper clippings, motorcycle racing, Family Guy, wind-up knights and Embarrassing Bodies. As ever, prices are correct at the time of writing, but may have changed by the time you read this. (Free + IAP) means in-app purchases are used within the app. One born every minute now it has an app aimed at mothers-to-be, helping them track their pregnancies, look at fetal development images, plan doctor visits, and tick off to-do lists. More than that, Here and then from the British newspaper app is for anyone interested in the last 200+ years of history, offering daily reports from the British Newspaper Archive based on that day, another app is the Carousel by Dropbox Carousel which is owned by cloud storage firm Dropbox – its brand new app for storing and browsing your photos and videos. The app automatically uploads shots as you take them, and you can ping them to friends privately from within the app too, this is a free app to download.

Opinion: There are many more apps which have been launched, some for free and some which need to be paid for, however, regardless the prices of these apps the fact that there are apps for many programmes which airs on TV means that apps and new and digital media are challenging traditional media, in this case viewers don’t need to wait to watch their favourite show on TV but can now go on the app and get updated by the latest info. 

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The Fly music magazine closes after nearly 15 years :

Summary of the story :

Free monthly magazine that was once the UK's biggest read music title hit by 'current market conditons' including the collapse of HMV. This magazine was established in 1999 and was very popular, however it relied on HMV to distribute tens of thousands of copies, and its circulation fell from 100,630 copies in February last year to 55,580 in June after the retailer closed 81 of its stores. A statement on the magazine’s website read: “After nearly 15 years of pioneering new music journalism, the owners of The Fly are officially closing the magazine as a result of current market conditions surrounding publishing.

My opinion :

I think the fact there now there are better magazines which may cover more what the audience are interested in was a factor in the downfall of The Fly magazine, also the fact that it was probably not published up to date with he audience is another key factor to why the magazine had closed down.

NDM STORY 2

Broadcasters slash YouView funding leaving BT and TalkTalk to plug gap :

Summary of the story:

BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 fear platform has been hijacked by telecoms companies as a pay-lite vehicle. The BBC and other broadcasters are poised to drop their annual contribution to the YouView set top box venture by 85% to around £750,000, leaving BT and TalkTalk to plug the funding gap. ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the BBC are concerned that a platform originally created to give viewers free access to British-made programmes through on-demand services like iPlayer has been hijacked by the telecoms companies as a pay-lite vehicle. The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and transmission company Arqiva are understood to be cutting their contribution from an average of £5m a year to £750,000, according to a source who asked not to be named. The agreement has not been signed by all parties and the terms could change again before the deadline.

My opinion:

YouView launched in July 2012 and is already installed in more than 1m homes. But its marketing and development have been costly. Seeing as YouView boxes connect television sets to the internet and to the aerial. The YouView box contains a digital video recorder, and receives live television, but crucially it uses a broadband connection to offer a catch-up library of recent shows from the four public service broadcasters. This might be seen better than the BBC.

NDM stories :

Fashion magazine Centrefold shoots on a Nokia mobile phone – in pictures

The summary of this aticle is that centrefold has shot it's entire 10th edition on the 41 megapixel lumia 1020. There is nothing more that this article contains except for images from the photoshoot. My opinion is that this is evidence from the fact that new and digital media is starting to take over, as usually photoshoots are shot by camera's, rather large camera's that are quite heavy to carry around, however, as they have used a smart phone this shows that the audience can get perfect images from taking pictures by a phone, suggesting that it is not necessary to buy a camera, also this s advertising the phone.



TV licence fee evasion could be decriminalised :

The summary of this article is that there are many people who do not pay for thir TV license,as a result the government is to launch a fomal review of the law that makes it a crime not to pay for the TV license, following a campaign led by backbench conservative MP''s. The BBC believes the proposal could lead to reduced revenue and force it to axe services. A corporation spokesman said: "The BBC is content that this proposal balances a timely examination of this issue with a proper review of the options, while not taking any decisions prior to charter review.", another spokeman said,  "This is an issue that should be discussed in the round, including the potential impact on licence fee income and BBC output, with any decisions made as part of the charter review process. This amendment appears to be in line with that." Cases of people accused of evading the £145.50 fee accounted for more than one in 10 of all criminal prosecutions last year – with 155,000 people convicted and fined. It has led to the thought of  ministers looking at the option of blocking TV channels for non-payers as part of a possible move to bring in civil penalties for licence fee evasion.