News distribution in a new media world (A model for the 21st century newsroom pt4) The fourth post of the Model for the 21st Century Newsroom looks at how distribution is changing from a push/pull model to a tripartite, push-pull-pass, one. In the 20th century, commercial distribution of news was relatively straightforward: if you worked in print, you published a newspaper or magazine at a particular time, it was transported to outlets, and people picked it up (or it was delivered).
If you worked in broadcast, you broadcast it at a particular time, and people watched or listened. Simple. In the 21st century, the picture is a little more complicated. It’s widely recognised that we are all journalists now, and anyone can be a publisher. But less widely publicised is the fact that, at the same time, and for the same reasons, everyone is a paperboy now. Perhaps that’s because it’s not quite so glamorous. Nevertheless, it’s a crucial factor in news production to consider. This creates two problems: Firstly, an online journalist is not typically trained in distribution. Tuning in. Jawed Karim: How YouTube Took Off. YouTube founder Jawed Karim gave an interesting lecture this week at his alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He describes how he thinks YouTube fits into the Internet’s history of killer apps, with some nice stories about the early days of a company whose success has left many grasping to understand it. Karim traces the idea for YouTube to a Wired Magazine article about BitTorrent by Clive Thompson in the magazine’s January 2005 issue.
The story included the calculation that 867,000 people watched Jon Stewart’s brilliant on-air harangue against Crossfire, while three times that many saw it online. Karim, recounting the online reach of the Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” and camcorder/cameraphone videos of that winter’s Asian tsunami, says he was captivated by the idea of an emerging clip culture.
Once they had the site up and running, Karim and partners Steve Chen and Chad Hurley set about pitching the site to every Wired writer they could find. National Statistics Online - Use of ICT at Home. Output in the Construction Industry, February 2014 The seasonally adjusted estimate of construction output in February 2014 has fallen by 2.8% (£270 million) when compared with January 2014. There were falls in both sub-sectors with new work falling 2.6% (£160 million) and repair and maintenance falling 3.1% (£110 million). Overseas Travel and Tourism - Monthly Release - Provisional Results, February 2014 Visits to the UK by overseas residents continue to rise in February 2014. UK Trade, February 2014 The UK’s deficit on seasonally adjusted trade in goods and services was £2.1 billion in February 2014. Index of Production, February 2014 Production output increased by 2.7% in February 2014, compared with February 2013.
Economic Review, April 2014 This Review draws together key economic stories from ONS economic statistics produced over the last month. Labour Productivity, Q4 2013 On an output per hour basis, UK labour productivity increased by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2013. National Statistics Online - Use of the Internet. Output in the Construction Industry, February 2014 The seasonally adjusted estimate of construction output in February 2014 has fallen by 2.8% (£270 million) when compared with January 2014.
There were falls in both sub-sectors with new work falling 2.6% (£160 million) and repair and maintenance falling 3.1% (£110 million). Overseas Travel and Tourism - Monthly Release - Provisional Results, February 2014 Visits to the UK by overseas residents continue to rise in February 2014. UK Trade, February 2014 The UK’s deficit on seasonally adjusted trade in goods and services was £2.1 billion in February 2014. Index of Production, February 2014 Production output increased by 2.7% in February 2014, compared with February 2013. Economic Review, April 2014 This Review draws together key economic stories from ONS economic statistics produced over the last month.
Labour Productivity, Q4 2013 On an output per hour basis, UK labour productivity increased by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2013. National Statistics Online - Internet Access. Consumer Price Inflation, March 2014 CPI annual inflation – the Government’s target measure was 1.6% in March 2014, down from 1.7% in February. CPIH annual inflation - the measure of consumer price inflation including owner occupiers' housing costs, was 1.5% in March 2014, down from 1.6% in February.
Producer Price Index, March 2014 In the year to March 2014 the output price index for home sales of manufactured products rose 0.5%. In the same period the total input price index fell by 6.5%. House Price Index , February 2014 UK house prices increased by 9.1% in the year to February 2014, up from 6.8% in the year to January 2014. Output in the Construction Industry, February 2014 The seasonally adjusted estimate of construction output in February 2014 has fallen by 2.8% (£270 million) when compared with January 2014.
Overseas Travel and Tourism - Monthly Release - Provisional Results, February 2014 Visits to the UK by overseas residents continue to rise in February 2014. UK Trade, February 2014. United Kingdom Internet Usage Stats and UK Telecom Reports.