Monday 17 March 2014

Daily Mail and Guardian digital 'minnows', says News UK chief

Daily Mail and Guardian digital 'minnows', says News UK chief


Mail Online


Mike Darcy has been criticising the guardian and daily mails approach to finding  sustainable model for professional journalism 

Monday 10 March 2014

NDM INDEX 2

25/11/13 : Virgin Galactic to accept Bitcoin for space flights
25/11/13 :Why Mail Online's 'terracotta army' is winning the digital war

5/1/14 : Snapchat reacts to hacking group releasing millions of phone
LG 'to exit traditional PC market' amid declining sales and profit squeeze
Page 3 is demeaning and regressive - Eleanor Mills of the Sunday Times.
Sky to open movie rental service to non-subscribers

20/1/14 : OMG! Number of UK text messages falls for first time
The Rupert Murdoch era is all but over'

3/2/14  ‘Telegraph’ editor Gallagher sacked over move away from newsprint
YouTube reveals $1bn music payouts, but some labels still unhappy.

10/3/14 Is it wrong to axe BBC3?
The Sun uses Page 3 models to make women aware of breast cancer

5 examples

1.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/lifestyle/big-issue/barbie-recreated-normal-proportions

this article is on the Barbie doll, and how a creator of a new doll has made one that has a more accurate size and features of an overage 19 year old girl, the doll is still pretty but more realistic and could stop young girls growing up thinking they have to be stick thin

2.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/lifestyle/big-issue/fearless-females-fightback/the-female-fightback?click=main_sr

Thousands of women across the world are fighting for their basic rights – while others just want to make our lives that bit better. As a new book, Pink Sari Revolution, details the rise of the Pink Gang in India, we highlight the work of the women around the world who are taking a stand against injustice and refusing to be silenced.

3.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/love-sex/tips/love-hunny-sexy-alarm-clock-vibrator-4688

an article on how to have an orgasm for women without a man, saying that you dont need men etc, feminism

Sunday 9 March 2014

The Sun uses Page 3 models to make women aware of breast cancer

The Sun uses Page 3 models to make women aware of breast cancer

sun

The widely controversial page 3 in the the sun newspaper has been used as a tool to raise awareness for breast cancer, it has joined the charity coppafeel in order to encourage women to get their breasts checked regularly, they also plan to make this a regular thing by making the memorable sub heading 'check em tuesdays'
 believe that this is a great idea to challenge anti page three campaigners, however do women really look or read page 3? in my opinion most would flck past that page, so would they really even get the message, tse are one of the many questions that could be raised against the campaign. raising awareness on issues as such is considered more ethical though, so it could generate more sales in the women demographic just for the simple fact of the editors appearing more sincere and caring about world problems.


Is it wrong to axe BBC3?

Bad Education

the BBC is to axe its channel 'bbc3' which is aimed at a younger audience, it has the most diverse audience, fostered new comedy talent continually and had the most diverse programmes, however due to the licence fee freeze their budgest have had to be cut, they are however still showing bbc3 programmes online which makes sense as most teens watch tv online now a days anyway, a licence freeze for the bbc can have detrimental effects such as this as it is the BBC's only source of income.
The youth aren't being told to "piss off to the internet"; they're already there. A quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds' viewing is via catch-up and the BBC expects that to rise to 40% – and that's before you consider non-TV videos on YouTube and the like.
moving to the online platform will help new talent be able to be produced and broadcasted, three hugely original new dramas will be launched on iPlayer. All from new writers and directors, and each to a natural length, from 13 minutes to 17, that would have sat awkwardly on TV. One is about Muslim speed dating, another's entirely in verse. BBC3 is still innovating, still diverse and still taking risks – it's just doing it online.