News institutions

News institutions:

BBC - British Broadcasting Company.

The BBC has 5 main channels including BBC news, BBC ONE, BBC TWO, AND BBC THREE and BBC FOUR. They also have BBC Iplayer that includes all the channels with catch up
BBC is owned by the British public.

Revenue:             
£4.963 billion (2015/2016)
£5.166 billion (2013/14)

ITV- commercial TV network in the UK

Launched in 1955 as Independent Television

Owned by:
ITV Network Limited

The ITV Network is not owned or operated by one company, but rather by a series of licensees that is different to different regions.

Since 2016 the fifteen licenses are held by two companies, with the majority held by ITV Broadcasting Limited, part of ITV.


Blog task 2: The impact of Google

1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry?
As of Google, newspaper industry has decline because of the advertisements because of the lack of them on Google. Also, this is the key sources of revenue for newspapers.


2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media.
About $40 billion dollars of advertising money has disappeared from the traditional news media platform which is about 60% of the ad revenue that the print media industry generated in 2000.


3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?
The period that has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue is from 2000 to 2010, going from $60 billion dollars of advertising revenue to almost $20 billion dollars.

4) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?
I think Google isn't the ones to blames for newspapers losing money as technology as improved so much that they should of known to move to e-media. More and more people are using the internet to get news as it is more accessible to people then newspaper.


5) Read the comments below the article. Pick one comment you agree with and one you disagree with and explain your response to the comments in detail.
Jane
January 5th, 2014
You can’t single out Google just because it’s the largest digital company. Patch, for example, invested hundreds of millions into journalism in the US and continues to search for the model that will work going forward. There are many who are investing in the future of journalism.

I agree with him as Google are not the only ones doing this.

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