News institutions research

BBC NEWS:

British commercial company formed on 18 October 1922. BBC combine global audience revealed at 308 million. By 2020 estimated 500 million global reach among viewers. John Reith founded the company.
  For the first time, television (148m) overtook radio (133m) as the most popular platform for BBC international news, and it is also the first time since the BBC tracked audiences for all three platforms – radio, TV and online (55m) – in English and 28 other languages – that they’ve all grown in the same year.
 World Service TV news content is now available in 12 languages.
The BBC is available on the TV/ONLINE/APP/YOUTUBE/FACEBOOK


THE SUN:

The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Founded in 1964, in late 2013 slipped to second largest Saturday newspaper behind the Daily Mail It had an average daily circulation of 2.2 million copies in March 2014.
Approximately 41% of readers are women The Sun has been involved in many controversies in its history, including its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. 

DAILY MAIL

The Daily Mail' is a British daily middle-market newspaper, First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The sun. 
Its sister paper 'The Mail on Sunday' was launched in 1982. 
The paper has been criticised by doctors and scientists for its reporting on medical subjects.
Approximately 2.503 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.448 million in the C2DE demographic. Its website has more than 100 million unique visitors per month.
It was at the outset a newspaper for women, the first to provide features especially for them, the only British newspaper whose female readers constitute more than 50% of its demographic.


THE GUARDIAN

 The Guardian was originated in 1821, it's a British nationwide newspaper.
It was known as The Manchester Guardian until 1959. The reader profile for the Guardian fall under Finance-savvy/ Food & drink aficionados/ Dedicated followers of fashion/ Active lifestyles/ Never without an item of technology/ Arts lovers/ Engaged, influential and well connected. 
The Guardian is only as print in the form of a newspaper, as well as on-line articles on the website (e-media) and broadcast and occasionally they feature clips on-line not necessarily on YouTube but as film broadcasting. 

Channel 4

'Channel 4' is a British public service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982. Before 'Channel 4' and 'S4C', Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1/BBC2/ITV, then 'Channel 4' was added. 
Channel 4 viewers are broadly in line with the general population average in terms of age and gender, as is More4, although it is slightly more female.
Channel four also is home to soaps and reality shows as well as their daily feature of the news bulletins. Channel four news.






The impact of Google


1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry?
Google has led to the decline of the newspaper because throughout years, Google have been taking money for advertisements. The online classified site that Craig Newmark started in his San Francisco apartment is often blamed for removing billions of dollars in classified advertising from the newspaper business, demolishing one of its key revenue pillars. Furthermore, the using the Internet is the new modern way to find out about news.

Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?
In my opinion, I don't think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs, because technology was and still is improving rapidly and the us becoming reliant on it was inevitable.

3) Read the comments below the article. Pick one comment you agree with and one you disagree with and justify your opinions in detail.


"Obviously, Google is not to blame. I don’t think it’s about blame. I think the Internet is incredibly poorly designed. Rather than being free, everything on it should cost something in order to compensate creators. We have a proven system for doing this through organizations like ASCAP and BMI. The principal of royalties for profiting from the content of others is well established. Google came along, and, at least in the case of Youtube, knowingly robbed content creators for years in order to build up the business." 
- Phil Hood. 

- I agree with statement, as I don't believe Google is to blame for the reason of newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs. Technology is improving and becoming more advance and if it wasn't Google, another website would've come along and done the same thing. Therefore, I think technology itself was the reason to newspapers losing out and journalists losing their jobs. 


"But no, they kept ALL of the money for themselves. And they still do it. They seem to think that Google News is a service. It’s just a leech on the hardworking reporters." 
- Bob.

- I disagree with this statement, as I don't believe it's a leech on hardworking reporters. They still give credit to the people who have studied and researched whatever topic they are studying. Furthermore, the term "leech" is very dramatic as Google is only a website that allows members of the public to access any information they need.