Initial Notes

75% of UK adults say they get their news from TV. However, 90% of people over 55 get their news from TV compared to 59% of 16-24 year olds (up from 44% in 2013) 

The amount of people using news apps is a big growth area: 32% of adults said they used them in 2013; 41% in 2014

19% of 16-24 year olds said they only use the internet and apps for their news whereas only 1% of over 55s only use internet/apps

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• 1960s – 90% of Americans had a TV
• 1950s – around 9%

People watched the second attack on the Twin Towers in real time on Sept 11th 2001.

The emergence of 24 hour rolling news meant ever greater depth, detail and analysis…but also fear and space-filling!

The vast majority of the reporting (the what) was done by TV and its reporters.

The analysis of how and why by TV and print publications.

BIG OR TRADITIONAL MEDIA.

• Gillmor: ‘There was a cliché that journalists write the first draft of history. Now I think these people are writing the first draft of history at some level, and that’s an important shift'

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Media Language: the technical elements that media producers use to communicate something with the audience/ reader