Questions for Blogger

1.
"How has social media benefited your career?
2.  "When did you want to start blogging ?" 

 3.  "What inspired you to start blogging?" 

4.  "Can you tell our readers about yourself and your blog?"

"What was you doing before blogging?" 

 5. 

"What would you say the greatest satisfaction of being a blogger is ?" 

6. 

"Where do you see yourself, careerand blog in the future?" 

7. How has your blog helped the Ethiopian culture become more celebrated?

8. What advice would you want to give someone who is thinking  about creating a blog/ start blogging?

9.  "How do you want to improve yourself in the next year or do you have and specific goals for the rest of this year?" 

AISHA: " Each year I hope to grow into becoming an overall better person. I would not want to give a time limit on a specific goal but I hope each year I learn and grow as a person

10. 

  "What do you do in your spare time when your not blogging?" 

11. 

"Who was your first style icon?" 

LO1- FINAL SUBMISSION OF OVERVIEW OF NEWS INDUSTRY*

Being able to have access to current events and worldly topics is very important. This is because the world is constantly changing and people need to be aware of what is taking place in the world. News is provided to the audiences through a variety of different media product. For example, though, social media, radio, television and print media. These are the most popular way for news companies to supply audiences with news in order to inform and educate the world on newly received information especially on recent events. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the types of media products which cover the news and provides this news to an audience to allow people to understand what is happening. Citizen Journalism allows people to report and inform others on what has something that has occurred and have the ability to inform others through technology. For example, the use of Smartphones allows you to photograph and report breaking news.

Social media is a very popular platform today. With over 1.96 billion people active on social media globally. Popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap Chat etc. Have used their worldwide platform to present news to their audience, which is a mass audience consisting of both genders from teenagers to adults. Having a mass audience is an advantage especially bfor transmitting new and information to the end user. Social media is a great way to provide news across to audiences. An example of a social media product which has a big part in providing news is Snapchat. Snapchat is a popular app with over 60 million international users. This media product uses its platform to bring news across to its audience. For example, Snapchat have a section on top news and magazine brands for audience to easily view. The type of news and magazine companies included on Snapchats app are Buzz Feed, Cosmopolitan, Daily mail, National Geographic, Ok! etc. Snapchat has a wide variety of news types for a wide variety of audiences. Buzz feed is a popular news and magazine online brand which is targeted at a much younger audience than the target audience for national geographic. This goes to show Snapchat have a mass audiences consisting of different genders, age, lifestyle etc. This is a great reason for news companies to use Snap Chat as it is also a news provider. The reason news companies use social media is for people to receive their news is because of how popular social media is. This makes social media a suitable platform to inform users. These are some examples of the type of news you are able to view on Snap Chat. Social media is a great way for citizen journalists to report and inform others on the event. Another reason social media is a popularized platform to use is due to its positive results in distribution, where companies are now able to distribute products and receive increase in brand recognition. Social media is now a very popular distribution method similar to how radio once was.

Overall, social media is a great platform to use. This is because of the

 Another media product used to provide news is through the T.V, which is a very traditional way of giving news to audiences. Although it is a traditional way of providing news across, it is also still very popular. Channels such as BBC1, BBC News, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky are some of the popular Channels in the U.K. Television programs such as the BBC News who own BBC Africa, BBC Asia to present news worldwide. They also have an online website worldwide to access news wherever. BBC News app is also a very popular used media product. AL Jazeera, also known as JSC, is a Doha-based state-funded broadcaster owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network is different to the BBC. This is because Al-Jazeera is based on news from the Middle East rather than the rest of the world.

Radio is also a traditional way of marketing. As well as online and television, BBC also own many radio stations presenting music as well as news. Although this is a traditional way of receiving and giving news but yet very popular. BBC Radio is the most popular listened to radio in the U.K. BBC radio 2 with 15 million views is the highest listened to radio. There are also many popular radio stations that also presents news such as Capital, Capital Xtra, Heart which all present entertainment as well as news. Rupert Murdoch is an Australian billionaire who owns conglomerate companies such as News Corp and 21st Century Fox. News Corp is a conglomerate company owning several successful subsidiaries The Australian. Such as;

The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun / Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail (Brisbane), The Advertiser., The Sunday Times (Western Australia), The Mercury etc. Print media is quite a traditional way of providing to audiences. However, it is still a very popular and successful way of providing news.

Technological convergence is the when different technological system work together in order to work towards similar tasks. For example, a smart phone includes a mp3 player and phone calls, which were two separate products before until the two converge. Another example is the internet. Videos will not have been able to have uploaded onto YouTube without technological convergence due to film making being a tech convergence. Media product that present news is now able to provide news through apps, social media etch thanks to technological convergence. Downloading apps such as the Guardian and buzz feed is possible. Comparing these two apps which are to inform audiences. These two aps are fairly different through presentation, audience etc. Buzz feed is for a much younger audience than The guardian which is aimed at the ABC1 group with a much higher vocabulary usage. Buzz feed is aimed at teenagers in the c2de group.

Web 2.0 was created in 2004 by Riley media after collaborating with Media Live. Web 2.0 allows the world wide web to be an interactive. Before Web 2.0 websites were either viewed or downloaded and Wen 2.0 allowed users to interact and even take control of pages. For example, Wikipedia allows the end user to rewrite and edit their content. Social media is also a very interactive feature allowing people to make connections and expanding businesses. YouTube is a very popular place for news companies to portray their news. The create their channel to present videos or clips. For example, Buzz Feed have a YouTube channel which have over 11million subscribers and also have views up to 66 million. YouTube is a great way for people wherever to watch whenever.

Darcy DiNucci, consultant on information design, introduced the meaning of Web 2.0 in an article. “The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens.”

News agencies provide news to media product to provide that news their audience. There are many news agencies around the world, three global news agencies, Agnese France-Pressed (AFP), Associated Press (AP) and Reuters, have offices in most countries of the world and cover all areas of information. For example, AFP is the 3rd biggest news agency in the world and provides news internationally. AFP's 200 bureaus cover 150 countries across the world, with 80 nationalities represented among its 2,260 collaborators.

 

These two articles focus on the affect trump has had on the UK's economy. The BBC and The International Business times both have articles on how the UK's economy has boosted because of Donald Trump. The BBC have used text to explain the ways Trump has or can boost their economy. In this article the BBC have not used any photographs to portray this. They have based their article from a statement made by a central banker. Although The International Business times have portrayed the same message across through a video in their online article. Unfortunately, these article have not portrayed what harm Trump may cause to the UK. They have written bias articles on hoe positive Trump is. I believe these articles are quite bias because they have only described the positive impact trump has had on the UK rather than the negative.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2014/08/11/the-top-10-benefits-of-social-media-marketing/#35a917801f80

LO2- FINAL SUBMISSION OF ANALYSIS OF ARICLES*

Avalanche engulfs skiers at Tignes ski resort in France 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/07/tignes-avalanche-skiers-french-resort-alps


Avalanche engulfs skiers at Tignes ski resort in France



On Tuesday morning the 7th of March 2017 the French Alpine Resort was hit by an avalanche attacking skiers in France . The reason for this disaster was natural causes.
This article written by the Guardian is quite formal due to it being aimed at an ABC1 audience. This means that this article is written with high vocabulary. The purpose of this article is to inform people on the disaster that had occurred.
The tone of this article was written in a formal, poressional tone just like every other Guardian News article. Again this is because of the ABC1 audience The Guardian's articles are written for and also the purpose of the article to get peole informed on dangers such as this.
This headline catches the audience through using leaving the reader/ audience to want to know what has happened next. This is through not informing if the skiers to the audience whether if they are safe, alive or rescued. This leaves the reader wondering and to carry on reading the article in order to find out more information from the dilemma.
There are many different sentence structures portrayed through this article such as simple, compound and complex an example of a compound sentence used in this article is 'Skiers on a “family slope” in the popular French Alpine resort of Tignes that was hit by an avalanche on Tuesday morning have all been found safe and well, French officials have said. ‘This is an example of a compound sentence used in this article written by the independent. Another sentence structure used is Compound sentence 'Two hours after the avalanche, local gendarmes who feared a large number of skiers were under the snow, said they had examined every metre of the piste and found no victims'. This article has also featured compound sentence. As well as compound and complex The Independent article has also included a variety of different simple sentences an example of this is ‘The ski resort was closed to the public'.
The word 'difficult' is repeated in this article. This is in order for the reader to understand the situation that has occurred and how hard it was. BBC news, Channel 5 and The Independent are many television and newspaper companies that have covered this unfortunate accident.
The article brings awareness to the readers on the occurance although noone was injured. This allows more families and friends to be aware of what is potential.

















Kyle Christie off Geordie Shore tattooed his own face on girlfriend Holly Hagan and she is FURIOUS 


http://lifestyle.one/heat/celebrity/news/kyle-christie-geordie-shore-tattooed-face-girlfriend-holly-hagan-furious/

The title has already given details about who and what. The purpose of this article tis to inform people 
Summarise the main points of the article.
Who -Kylie christie and Holly Hagan.
What - Kylie Christie tattood his face on Holly Hagan
Where- Newcastle
When - 6/03/17

This is an informal written article aimed to be targeted at a C2DE group from ages between 16-25. This article is also targeted at a female audience. The purpose of this article is to inform the females in the c2de group what. This article is written in an informal tone due to it being targeted at young age group and a c3de group. The headline includes who this articles is based on in order to for
readers to want to have more information about the situation. Especially, due to the article being based on Reality T.V stars. This headline is informal using lower vocabulary. This article uses a variety of many different complex sentence in this article written by Heat World. For example, ‘While Holly picked a thoughtful design for Kylie, he decided to go with a huge black and white image of his own face obtained by The Sun Online.’
‘This has, understandably, caused a massive argument between the pair, as Holly thought he was going to pick something that, y'know, wasn't his own head’. Also, they have used the word ‘Y’know’. This clearly show how informally written this article is. For example, The Independent would not use words such as ‘y’know’ due to it being very informal and not suited for their audience.
The article is clearly informal it uses capital letters in the articll. HOLLY. WHY DID YOU LET HIM DECIDE WHAT TO TATTOO ONTO YOUR NECK? SORRY FOR SHOUTING, BUT ARE YOU SERIOUS?
This is clearly a representation of how this magazine is for entertainment purposes. 
The article featured inappropriate words such as "hench as f*ck, wicked in bed" this is another example of how the magazine is written peer to peer. You usually find these types of article written about celebrities in Buzzfeed, Hollywood life etc. All are usually informal and peer to peer.




Donald Trump campaign aides repeatedly spoke with Russian officials in run-up to election 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-campaign-aides-russian-officials-election-2016-intelligence-agencies-law-enforcement-a7580746.html


The Independent
15/02/2017

Donald Trump campaign aides repeatedly spoke with Russian officials in run-up to election

Donal Trump's campaign team have been in contact with Russian Officials. This was before the election, which took place on the 8th November 2017. The contact with Donald Trumps campaign took place in Washington DC (US capital).This was in order to possibly to sabotage Hillary Clinton's candidacy through Russia posting fake news
The purpose of this article is to inform us on this occuring to get a better understanding of this historic presidency/election.
'Law enforcement and intelligence agencies found that members of Donald Trump’s campaign and other associates had repeated contact with Russian officials in the run-up to the election.'
This shows the purpose of the article is to inform the public on what is occurring. Also this shows the purpose of the article is to report to us on what has happened. Russians being in contact with the Donald Trump’s team before the election was detailed in the article in order to report and the public on what has happened.
'Intelligence agencies were also concerned by Mr Trump's remarks last summer'
This clearly shows how the article is also a report. The Independent has provided information on the problem. The tone uses
In my opinion I believe this issue to be a very major issue because of the effects it may have had on Donald Trump’s campaign. Although, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States many people were not happy with him being elected. For Donald Trump’s team being in contact with the Russians before his campaign could give Hilary or non-Donald Trump voters a reason for him being elected. However, USA have denied this to be true. Donald Trump’s team being in contact with the Russians was said to have something to do with 'sabotaging' Hilary Clinton's campaign. I do not understand why this information is not effecting Donald Trump as he is now the President of the United States. Was there not enough proof or evidence for this to be true? And if this was to be true can this effect Donald Trump as president and give justice to Hilary.
'Four current and former US officials told the New York Times'
This conveys how this information is probably true due to coming from a quite high and reliable sources. In my opinion this should be enough evidence to investigate if the campaign between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton was fair. What I found interesting was they have more than enough evidence such as 'they had intercepted phone records and phone calls and had found evidence of the repeated communications last year'. I did not understand why this information was not told earlier but after Donald Trump was elected.
'They discovered that Russia had carried out a "campaign of influence" upon the election, posting fake news to sabotage Hillary Clinton's candidacy.'
This clearly shows this was in order for Donald Trump to be elected president and ruin Hilary's Campaign.
'US intelligence officials also did not say how much of the communication with Russia was related to business.'




Anything for her princess!
Pregnant Beyoncé dresses five-year-old Blue Ivy in $26K silk-chiffon Gucci dress for Beauty And The Beast premiere
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4287914/Beyonce-dresses-Blue-Ivy-26K-dress-premiere.html
Summarise the main points of the article.
Beyonce's Daughter, Blue I
Who- Beyonce
What - Dresses her daughter in a 26k dress.
Where- Beauty and The Beast Premiere
When - 07/03/17
This article is aimed to inform and entertain readers about the celebs life.

This is another article targeted at a female C2DE category due to it being an article based on celebrity. Also, aimed at a female audience. This female audience would have interest in makeup, clothes etc. This article is informally written in order to suit the target audience. This means the use of low vocab such as words like ‘good’ an ‘smaller’ to describe things. The headline gave quite a lot of information on what the target audience would like to hear such as expensive brands e.g. Gucci and major prices. The article was filled with mostly simpe sentence. Probably due to the C2DE category this article was aimed at using simple sentence.
'Such as Even at five years old Beyonce's daughter is learning first hand the price of being a diva'.The headline is quite long which is common when it comes to articles written for an abc1 category. Similar to other article such as Buzz feed, where the article are also written peer to peer.
Short sentences also featured on this article to fit with the c2de category.
'Even at five years old Beyonce's daughter is learning first hand the price of being a diva.'

The article is written for people with lifestyle with much free time.