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The rise and the rise of UGC

What is meant by the term 'citizen journalist' ?
both who make the news and what makes the news.
news being generated by 'ordinary people'.

What was one of the first examples of news being generated by 'ordinary people' ? 
The film of the beating of Rodney King , An African American. 

List some of the formats for participation that are now offered by news organisation : 
Most news organisations include formats for participation : messages abroad, chat rooms, Q&A, polls, have your says, and blogs with comments enabled, social media sites are also built around UGC, wikipedia news, google news, and Youtube. 

What is one of the main differences between professionally shot footage and that taken first hand (UGC) ?
First hand view, rather than professionally shot footage from behind the police lines, is often more hard-hitting and emotive.

What is a gate keeper ? 
people who decide what is and what isn't news.

How has the role of a gate-keeper changed? 
groups who had little access to self-representations, such as youth groups, low income groups, and various minority groups may through citizen journalism, begin to find that they too have a voice.

What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC ? 
There are now fewer and fewer permanent trained staff at news organisations, leaving a smaller core staff who will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, sometimes known as ‘crowd sourcing.’ Some believe that the mediators and moderators might eventually disappear too, leaving a world where the media is, finally, unmediated. This does raise concerns however. Without moderation sites could be overrun by bigots or fools, by those who shout loudest, and those who have little else to do but make posts The risk of being dominated by defamatory or racist or other hate-fuelled content raises questions about unmoderated
content: ‘free speech’ is great as long as you agree with what everybody is saying!

weekly NDM story

1- sexy selfies may upset parents, but they're part of growing up today. 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/11/sexy-selfies-upset-parents-texan-mother



This article is written by Kimberly Hall and published on her blog. It is mostly aimed at girls as she starts off by saying "Dear Girls", she also goes on to say that if boys see an undressed photo of a female then he would start to think of her as a sex object and is only good for sexual needs. 

She also states that "I'd be lying if I told you, as the mother of four growing-up daughters, that there haven't been moments that have stopped me in my tracks where my girls and their selfies are concerned. But what I try to remember is this: adolescence is all about shocking the adults around them. And adolescence is a lot about sex, too; one of the ways that sexual attraction is played out these days is on the internet. Teenagers of both sexes have always experimented with their sex appeal, and one of the big differences between our day and theirs is that this experimentation has other outlets in 2013. I'm not saying it's good, and I'm not saying it's bad – what I am saying is that it's something we did too when we were young, just in a different way." which in other words she is trying to say that sexual pictures of females are a part of growing up and even if we disagree with the way they behave we have to put up with it as its a part of growing up and showing the world how much they have grown up to be. 

Tony about death threats spark federal investigations - 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/tony-abbott-death-threat-facebook



This article is about federal detectives are assessing serious threats against senior australian politicians after a webpage advocated the assassination of Tony Abbott. 

Facebook page 'Tony Abbot should be assassinated' taken down and threat being investigated by detectives.

Rupert Murdoch's second grilling by parliamentary committee postponed - 



plans to bring Rupert Murdoch before the culture, media and sport committee for a second grilling about the activities of his British newspaper empire have been shelved after the attorney general of his own lawyers intervened. 

from reading the article we know that Rupert told the parliamentary committee that that his lawyers advised him not to submit himself for questioning until all the criminal trials relating to the news of the world and the sun are over. 

Media talk podcast : BBC bias and payoffs row

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who are the major players in terms of news providers in the uk and what exactly do they own ?

About BBC : The british broadcasting corporation is british public service broadcasting corporation.  It is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff. The bbc is headquartered at broadcasting house in london and has major production centres in salford Quays, Belfast , Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow. And smaller production centres throughout the Uk.Outside the Uk, THE BBC world has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio (19th december 1932) and more recently by television and online.

What different channels does BBC broadcast on ? BBC 3 - 19:00 BBC FOUR - 19:00 BBC Parliament- 10:00-12:00 , BBC News 11:00 - 12:00. 

In 2002, a few television and radio channels were reorganised. bbc knowledge was renamed as BBC four and became the BBC's arts and documentaries channel. CBBC, which had been a programming strand as Children's BBC since 1985, was split into CBBC and Cbeebies, for younger children, with both new services getting a digital channel: the CBBC chanel and Cbeebies Channel. Also new digital radio stations were created: 1 xtra , 6 music and BBC7 . BBC 1 EXTRA was a sister station to radio 1 and specialised in modern black music, BBC 6 music specialised in alternative music genres and BBC7 specialised in archive, speech and children's programming.

What other platforms : man online, the guardian, BBC website, Facebook and twitter. 

How much are they worth : BBC could be worth 7bn pounds in a sell-off. 

what does the BBC own :