Hello readers!
Well sadly, the semester of JOUR1111 has come to an end and I will commemorate it with this- my last blog post :)
I have really enjoyed the semester of Journalism and Communication, primarily because of the large amounts of content I have learned along the way.
Topics which I found particularly interesting to learn about were investigative journalism, commercial media and picture stories. The assessment pieces which I enjoyed completing the most were the factual storytelling exercise because my topic was my mum and this blog because I really liked reflecting each week on the lecture and things I thought were useful or worthy of sharing.
In terms of the construction of the course, I wouldn't change anything, I thought all the lecture topics were extremely relevant to budding journalists and the tutorials were correctly spaced out with lots of content to cover.
Finally, this course has enabled me to improve my creative writing skills and expanded my knowledge of all topics which are crucial to journalists today. I look forward to using these skills in whichever career path I choose to take.
Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing!
Monday 11 June 2012
Sunday 10 June 2012
A real world example of news values and agenda setting!
Hello everyone!
I am sorry I haven't blogged anything in a while, I have been very busy with university assessment and planning holidays!
Today I wanted to share with my readers a really interesting article which I think exemplifies the concepts of agenda setting and news values.
This article, published in The Australian media section on the website, describes how channel 9, a free-to-air broadcasting channel deciding to not air the final of the French Open but instead wants to air the finale of the show The Voice. Their reasons for this is because the Voice has higher ratings and it is not in their best interest to air half a game.
In relation to this article relating to the content we learned about agenda setting and news values is that channel 9 has clearly chosen a show which will make them the most money out of advertisements and highest ratings. Furthermore, the Voice has news values which are evidently, more important to them as a company rather than the French Open final.
I thought this article was interesting to see how the concepts learnt in the lectures and tutorials are played out in a real-life example by a high profile broadcasting company.
Below is the link to the article to view.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/nine-delays-french-open-final/story-e6frg996-1226391244500
Enjoy!!
I am sorry I haven't blogged anything in a while, I have been very busy with university assessment and planning holidays!
Today I wanted to share with my readers a really interesting article which I think exemplifies the concepts of agenda setting and news values.
This article, published in The Australian media section on the website, describes how channel 9, a free-to-air broadcasting channel deciding to not air the final of the French Open but instead wants to air the finale of the show The Voice. Their reasons for this is because the Voice has higher ratings and it is not in their best interest to air half a game.
In relation to this article relating to the content we learned about agenda setting and news values is that channel 9 has clearly chosen a show which will make them the most money out of advertisements and highest ratings. Furthermore, the Voice has news values which are evidently, more important to them as a company rather than the French Open final.
I thought this article was interesting to see how the concepts learnt in the lectures and tutorials are played out in a real-life example by a high profile broadcasting company.
Below is the link to the article to view.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/nine-delays-french-open-final/story-e6frg996-1226391244500
Enjoy!!
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