Over the last ten years we have seen the rise of social media around the globe. This rise has, in some cases, revolutionised industries maybe none so much as the industry i'm about to talk about, The news industry. We consume a lot of news on a daily basis and traditionaly we would consueme it in a few different ways. Radio bulletin's, TV and print media were the main resources for people who wanted the hear the news and if we think of it that was only up to about ten years ago, But a lot of change has heppend within that ten years and I would like to take you through some of the most common methods of consuming news today (2016).
Most of us these days have mobile phones or to be more precise smartphones. Smartphones have in my opinion replaced Newspapers and other forms of print media
Its now possible to carry around a huge amount of news and information in your pocket there are countless news apps ranging from major outlets like Sky News, RTE, RT, BBC and CNN to smaller independent outlets like The News Network, World News and Breaking News.ie. If you have any or all of these apps you are pretty much carrying arount digital newspapers and the convience of that is one of the reasons why print media has been on such a dramatic decline as of late. TV broadcasts have also been effected but not as much as print media. TV news stations have had to adapt to this new way of consuming news and in many cases they have embraced it and have encouraged users to use there Facebook, Twitter or instagram apps. One thing the TV channels have going for them is control, They can limit the content released online in a more controled way then a newspaper for example, They want people to still tune in so they limit what appears on Podcasts and online and will often use tweets to get people to tune in .
Radio news has also had to adapt
Before TV and long before the Internet and social media the main method for people getting news was radio bulletin's. Many people would have a radio on in there house's and at certain times of the day the news would be read, while this still happnes and is still popular the way and the place's that this happens have changed. Most of us will only listen to the radio while we are in the car and we very often lsiten anywhere else. The radio companies know this and there are now radio channels that deal primarily in reporting the news and talking and analysing the news , A good example of that would be Newstalk which is an Irish news radio station.
So the digital age is most definitly upon us and just like in many other industries it's forcing news outlets to change and to come up with new ways of delivering the news in an ever changing enviroment.
References:
http://www.journalism.org/2016/05/26/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-2016/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/24/how-social-media-is-reshaping-news/
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