What do you think has been the impact of the explosion in the many different ways and formats we can now recieve news?

What do you think has been the impact of the explosion in the many different ways and formats we can now recieve news?

I believe the impact in the way we the audience now recieve news is that there are a variety of platforms and formats that audiences can now recieve the news such as,

• Broadcast (Sky news/BBC News)
• Print (The Sun/ Daily mail)
• E-media (Twitter/Facebook)
• RSS Feeds (Over the air news)
• Word of mouth
• Radio
• Apps (Mobile applications)

This differs from 10 to 20 years ago where audiences were only able to recieve news through newspapers and radio. However in this day and age, the news is more interactive and acessibile through mobile phones. Furthermore, due to the boom in social networking, many people (mostley teens) recieve their news through social networking sites with the major player being facebook.

Therefore, I believe that the explosion in the many different ways and formats we can now recieve news mainy benefits the audiences as  they have more ways to access and recieve the news whereas the news instituions are in panic as they are losing revenue from newspapers as audiences are finding alternative methods mainly being e-media as it is free and available on the move.