MDIA1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: University Of New South Wales, Narrative Journalism, Creative Nonfiction
09/03/18 UNSW notes | MDIA1002 Monique Munro
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Media & Communication Contexts
Week 4 notes
MDIA1002 Lecture
Review
• Leads are NOT headlines (they have differences)
New news
• Why are we talking about it?
- The natures of technological change, well into a great digital change
- Important how a text is produced and distributed Impact on communication
that is created
• Early news production
- Slow/ required a lot of people
• Later news production
- A more modern but still physical slow process
- Where the original news cycle comes from in terms of getting things written,
edited, approved before the printing deadline
- Still takes time to lay everything out, run the press, pack it, transport it out,
distribute it
• Change has always been a part of communitive production
Digital Tech and the news
• What do they enable and felicitate?
- Example: The London Terror Attack, 2017
- Blogs: Providing live updates
- Print (Sydney morning Herald): Did not include because they had already gone to
print, failed to keep up with live action events. Next day in print, the newspaper did
include the event plus all the updated events from the day before
+ Widely discussed around the world on social media
The tasfoatie ipat of digital tools ad tehology o the es Fle
• Digital tech has changed the communicative processes so much
- 24hr news cycle: Can log on and update news, not tied to the cycle of the printing
press
- If the espape ist atually oeig the ost ipotat eets o the day ad as
they happen, and you can find this information elsewhere and for free, you are not
going to buy the newspaper.
- Why would advertisers pay huge sums of money to put their ads in the paper that
ist eig bought?
+ Advertising funds the news Advertising goes elsewhere = News in trouble
+ Producing news/ advertising online= Cheap
+ Job losses, loss of public trust in journalists (due to news being generated by
citizen journalists, individuals reporting on things quickly Why do we need
journalists?)
• Positive effects of change
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09/03/18 UNSW notes | MDIA1002 Monique Munro
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- Access to more sources (online to anything)
- Closer to real time
- Involvement of citizens (contribute to the worlds knowledge in news)
- More voices
- Renewal of public trust in media due to evidence of actual fake news having a
eoud effet Doald Tups hypoitial fake es iidet, attakig
journalism) = more subscribers
- People realising that journalism is useful to the democratic process (Evidence of
voter manipulation eg, Cambridge Analytica
+ Ieasig dissatisfatio ith aalytis ad algoiths Adetisig: If you like …
you ill like Ciles aoud you o old ad taste = gets narrower
+ The ironic juxtaposition of a universe full of resources and opportunities, things we
can access, yet algorithms push us down a narrow path
• Whether the changes be positive or negative..
- New economic model, how do you fund news enterprises because it is very unstable
(different solutions are being applied)
- Is up to ou geeatio if ay of us at jos, olde ge doest ko hat to do
with this new world and how to make it work
- Flew (2014) & Solutions
+ Take advantage of the new tech and what they are for (Do you need so many full
tie joualists? “MH fousig o a sall ue of stas
+ Dot ake you otet aailale fo fee use a payall eg, Austalia, likig o
a story you need to be a subscriber to access the content= implies the publication
has content that is valuable)
+ Take the bits of the organisation that are still profitable and hive them off so they
are not damaged by the costs of journalism and can generate their own funds
(Fairfax; SMH is apart of. Real estate is still profitable for them, Domain.com. Fairfax
has hived off the Domain group into a separate entity, so the funds it generates can
be kept there and perhaps fund journalism)
+ Leverage new client via fundamental content- creation practices, doing thing
besides write news stories, writing content for other people (MADE by Fairfax
Media)
+ Making content available for free however asking users to make a donation (eg,
the Guardian)
+ Long- form, investigative journalism (Online world is fast, you can solve things
quickly, put up bites of information can be hard to justify long information, eg The
Saturday Paper 4-6 stories taking up one full page, pushing hard, unpopular news in
Aus. Newspapers have changed, going back and doing a part of the news really well=
long detailed stories)
+ Develop new genres, hard news has no place in print heritage journalism because
the story has already been broken somewhere else. By the time the printed paper is
in your hands, the story had already been discussed by other media. New news:
Narrative opening [Delayed lead]
Ne es: The aatie style
• Not the same as narrative/ literary journalism
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Document Summary
Review: leads are not headlines (they have differences) The natures of technological change, well into a great digital change. Important how a text is produced and distributed impact on communication that is created: early news production. Slow/ required a lot of people: later news production. A more modern but still physical slow process. Where the original news cycle comes from in terms of getting things written, edited, approved before the printing deadline. Still takes time to lay everything out, run the press, pack it, transport it out, distribute it: change has always been a part of communitive production. Print (sydney morning herald): did not include because they had already gone to print, failed to keep up with live action events. Next day in print, the newspaper did include the event plus all the updated events from the day before. + widely discussed around the world on social media.
