Monday, May 07, 2012

New/Digital Media (inc. News Case Study): New Articles

Keep checking back here every few days as there will be links added to new relevant articles, usually from MediaGuardian, that you can use for your MEST3 case studies.

Remember, the examiner wants to see fresh information that demonstrates someone who's actively taking an interest in the media so read/make notes on at least one new article/day...

Times and Sunday Times websites bring down paywall for jubilee weekend: Sunday Times app opened for free trial during culmination of a three-week editorial and marketing campaign.

Digital music spending greater than sales of CDs and records for first time: BPI reveals that digital music accounted for 55.5% of total £155.8m music sales in the first quarter of 2012.

Twitter now has 10m users in UK: UK is the fourth-largest country for Twitter users in the world, with 80% accessing it with mobile phones.

How Facebook became the world's biggest social network -animation: Facebook is hitting the stock exchange with its IPO later this week - and the latest estimates increase its potential valuation, making it the biggest floatation ever. But how did the social network get so big - and can it possibly get any bigger?

Life is tweet, says John Prescott, as Twitter reaches 10m milestone in UK: Twitter has helped shift the balance of media power from press barons to the people.

Leveson inquiry: the musical – video: An auto-tuned hip-hop extravaganza starring Lord Justice Leveson, Rupert Murdoch, Alastair Campbell, Charlotte Church, Hugh Grant, Kelvin MacKenzie, Piers Morgan, Robert Jay, Sienna Miller and many more.

Rebekah Brooks charged with perverting the course of justice: Former News International chief executive, her husband and four others charged in phone-hacking inquiry.

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