Electronic News
Jeremy Orlebar | Tuesday April 21, 2009
Categories: Courses, GCSE, WJEC GCSE, New Media, Digital Media, New Technologies, News, Intro to News, More on News
People get their news from many different outlets and not just one newspaper or radio or TV channel. It is not unusual for an individual to take a newspaper at home, read several online newspapers, watch
BBC NEWS24, look at an alternative news website, get an RSS feed to a laptop, subscribe to news text messages sent to a mobile, subscribe to several news podcasts and contribute to a news blog – phew!
We still get most of our news from the traditional news providers. BBC Radio has 11 million listeners to all its morning (up to 9.00am) news/chat/music shows on local and national radio.
But the new enews formats are bringing news to more people, and enews is being generated from more different sources than ever before.
Newspapers still sell well, although sales are dropping, and there is arguably less news in the tabloids than ever before. News organisations use websites to increase ereaders, and stimulate different revenue streams. Some broadsheet newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian lose serious money and have to be financed by other sources. The Guardian is kept in print by its increasingly businesslike commercial arm Guardian Media Group which is investing heavily across the media including radio stations such as Classic FM (interestingly it has just pulled out of digital only radio stations).
Enews is more than just...
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