How has news changed in the last 20 years?



A little history lesson...

 Over the last 20 years dramatic changes have taken place in regards to news but we cannot judge its vastness until we see it in perspective to the last 500 years ago too. From town criers carrying the news by word of mouth to the 17th century's print information. Only to progress further into 1920's radio to 1930's-1940's cinema news reels. Then came the major controversy of Nixon's resignation to 1980's CNN, the first news channel to be 24-hours long running. Then leading to the last 20 years and come to major news story that changed politics and live TV news as we know it 9/11.

 The changes & their impact

 It isn't hard to see that news as we know it wouldn't have the same impact and outcomes if all these developments hadent already taken place in history. But because they did, with major developments of news and technology over the last 20 years, news has been transformed.

 Lets begin with broadcast...

Over the last 20 years satellite TV has changed with the introduction of more and more rolling news channels such as BBC news, CNN, Sky, providing an audience with a vast range of channels to choose from. This is extremely beneficial to the audience as they can pick and choose news channels that have a similar right/left wing perspective as them at a time which is convenient to them. Or they can change between channels to provide them with different takes on the same news story. This is more beneficial to the audience and less so for news institutions that have to fight to keep the majority of the audience on their channel. Similar to the advances in general news channels instead of the traditional few in terrestrial TV.

Radio also has a similar story however radio has many more platforms it can be accessed on too such as online. Again this is more beneficial to an audience and difficult for institutions as the more established radio stations would be the ones with an audience however audiences can easily share online material so if new institutes come up with good content most of them would gain vast amount of coverage by trending online e.g. on twitter were sharing a link is extremely easy.

What about print? 


Print just seems to be a closing down industry, sadly, the new developments in technology means that cheaper electronic copies are more sought for. This is extremely detrimental to the institutions behind them that are having to be on the forefront of the electronic shift following the successful shifts like dailymail. However it may be seen as a positive if they can make these shifts it would mean cheaper running costs whilst still having an established name.

Now for the all important platform of the last 20 years.... E-media...

 In terms of the Internet it has allowed for users to become the forefront of the news with charts determining the top stories based on views, like BBC's news site, as well as citizen journalism and the depicting of the validity of already present news stories. However this isn't always the best place for news as it not only allows news with questionable facts to emerge or encourage dangerous behavior amoungst armature journalists. This is also negative for the insinuations whose industrial jobs are being taken down as well as their social media activity being closely monitored. Not to mention the audience questioning of particular news stories even of supposed the non-bias BBC news (this however can often be a positive thing)

overall the last 20 years have been the most beneficial to the audience rather than the news institutions.




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