The Future of Journalism: Blog tasks

 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this?

It holds powerful companies and individuals responsible for their actions and ensuring to inform the public

2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)?

the relationship where newspapers were somewhat beholden to their advertisers where advertising revenue subsidised the cost of journalism and websites like auto trader and monster replaced major revenue generators 

3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This means people are reading newspapers in a different way. How does he suggest audiences are consuming news stories in the digital age?

He is suggesting instead of just reading the newspapers they're consuming single articles as he refers to the unbundling of content

4) Shirky also talks about the power of shareable media. How does he suggest the child abuse scandal with the Catholic Church may have been different if the internet had been widespread in 1992?

Shirky implies that the internet would have amplified ad accelerated the information and leading to earlier exposure and accountability

5) Why does Shirky argue against paywalls? 

As paywalls restrict access to information which reduces the potential for it to be shared 

6) What is a 'social good'? In what way might journalism be a 'social good'?

As they can expose the wrong doing in large corporations resulting in a social good 

7) Shirky says newspapers are in terminal decline. How does he suggest we can replace the important role in society newspapers play? What is the short-term danger to this solution that he describes?

through the internet allowing for different types of journalism like citizen journalism ad the short term periods pf chaos when there will be a reduction in reliable news

8) Look at the first question and answer regarding institutional power. Give us your own opinion: how important is it that major media brands such as the New York Times or the Guardian continue to stay in business and provide news?

Its important as they expose large companies due to them being centre and still exposing left wing parties for the benefit of the audience 

Part 2: MM55 - Media, Publics, Protest and Power

Media Magazine 55 has an excellent feature on power and the media. Go to our Media Magazine archive, click on MM55 and scroll to page 38 to read the article Media, Publics, Protest and Power', a summary of Media academic Natalie Fenton’s talk to a previous Media Magazine conference. Answer the following questions:

1) What are the three overlapping fields that have an influence on the relationship between media and democracy?

vast amounts of revenue, social and political influence 

2) What is ‘churnalism’ and what issues are there currently in journalism?

refers to producing press releases and pre packaged information without much original reporting 

3) What statistics are provided by Fenton to demonstrate the corporate dominance of a small number of conglomerates? 

But in the UK, there are an ever-smaller
number of global media institutions dominating
the media landscape. Just three companies control
71% of UK national newspaper circulation while only
five groups control more than 80% of combined
online and offline news.

4) What is the 'climate of fear' that Fenton writes about in terms of politics and the media? 

Politicians are fearful of career-wrecking and life-
ruining negative publicity, along with damage to
their parties’ chances of re-election.

5) Fenton finishes her article by discussing pluralism, the internet and power. What is your opinion on this crucial debate - has the internet empowered audiences and encouraged democracy or is power even more concentrated in the hands of a few corporate giants?

I think the internet has empowered audiences due to them producing journalism content however large corporations may benefit from this by accessing the content from the consumers

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