NDM 31

Rapists use social media to cover their tracks, police warned

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There has been a 30% increase in the number of rape cases coming to court in the past two years, partly as result of publicity over Jimmy Savile and historical abuse scandals but also because victims appear to have more confidence that their humiliating experiences will be believed.

Police and prosecutors at the event examined a hypothetical case where an 18-year-old student went to a freshers’ party with a more mature student in her first week at university, drank too much, took drugs then woke up to find he had come into her room.

In my opinion, I think alot more rape has been told now due to the Jimmy Savile case, meaning that rapist need to be cover thier tracks in order to not get caught. Also with the rape scene in EastEnders, more people have come out.

NDM 30

Sky to block pornography by default to protect children

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Sky's Broadband Shield is designed to filter out content deemed to be unsuitable for children aged under 13. It has been offered as default to new customers for a year. But now the firm has decided to also offer it to all its existing customers, some 5.3 million in total.

Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group (ORG), was dismayed by the news. "Censorship should never be turned on by default," he said. "ORG's Blocked project (www.blocked.org.uk) has shown that filters block all kinds of websites, including some that provide useful advice to children and young people. Customers need to understand the implications of filters before deciding whether or not they want them." All the UK's big four ISPs - BT, Virgin Media, Sky and TalkTalk - offer filtering systems to help parents prevent their children viewing inappropriate material online although few have decided to oblige users to adopt the system.

NDM 29

Facebook claims it is a cash cow for EU governments

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Facebook will today publish a report – seen by EurActiv – claiming that its social network generated €195 billion and enabled 4,540,000 jobs throughout the world last year. Europe accounted for almost one quarter of the total global economic impact, the report said, with €44 billion and 783,000 jobs during 2014 ascribed to Facebook's economic impact within the 28-member state bloc.

The US saw the greatest macro-economic effects from Facebook, it claimed, with €86 billion and 1,076,000 jobs. The US outstrips the EU in its use of Facebook as a marketing platform, but the EU exceeds the US in its app economy, the report found.

Within the EU, the UK benefits the most from the impact of Facebook, according to the report, since 154,000 jobs during 2014 were enabled by the social media giant, roughly double the number in the closest EU states Germany (84,000 jobs), France (78,000 jobs) and Italy (70,000 jobs).

It seems that Facebook are using these stats to make it seem like, they are not at fault for evading or avoiding their taxes. This is because there has been alot of global companies have been condemned for not paying taxes including Starbucks and Google. 

NDM 27

Isis propaganda video praises Paris shootings and threatens more attacks across Europe, warning 'the Caliphate is coming'

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The Isis militant group has released a new video praising the attacks on Paris that killed 17 people last week, and warned that more attacks are to come.

Three French-speaking jihadists are shown in the video which, according to monitoring groups, was published by Isis’s media wing in Raqqa, Syria, and shared via social media.

I think, the Paris shootings have gone viral, which made Isis see it. They think that what was done in France was good, and correct. We knew at one stage Isis would speak.

NDM 26

The role of social media in Europe's migrant crisis

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The pages claim to be able to offer Syrian refugees a "safe passage" from Turkey to Italy on board a ship leaving later this month. On one Facebook page, smugglers say an 85-metre vessel will leave the Turkish city of Izmir on 20 January. The post says that refugees can buy a place on a four-day trip to Italy for $5,500 USD. Most of the pages are targeted at Syrians living in Turkey - most of whom have recently fled their homeland after nearly four years of civil war. A record 150,000 refugees arrived in Italy on boats in 2014, according data released by Italy's interior ministry, and the number is likely to rise this year. Most of the pages give out phone numbers and say refugees can call to book tickets. Places on board the ships are advertised for between $5,000-6,000 USD. Children are offered free travel, and the site promises accommodation while refugees wait for the date of departure.

NDM 25

Social media use 'does not increase stress', study claims

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 A new survey has found that people on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter do not experience more stress than digital refuseniks. However, social media users are more aware of stressful events experienced by their online friends, which has been described as the “cost of caring."

I think social media only causes stress for a lot of younger people who have not matured yet. This is because they maybe care too much about what people on social media think. Other people may think social media is just a little fun. I think due to the opportunity cost of going on social media, there is stress because students may think that they have spent alot of time on social media, instead of doing work. This therefore could could cause stress.

NDM 28

Paris shootings: 'Journalists are martyrs for liberty', says Kerry

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Ten journalists who lost their lives during a gun attack in Paris are "martyrs for liberty", the US Secretary of State has said. John Kerry was speaking following the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, believed to have been carried out by Islamic militants.The weekly publication had courted controversy in the past with its irreverent take on news and current affairs.

The Journalist who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks are seen as martyrs because they were shot for freedom of speech. This could show he is a martyr because died for a much bigger cause, however, it could also be interpreted he is an extremist just like the person who shot him. When working fro a big company in Paris, his views should have maybe taken a back seat. 

NDM 24

News Corp UK suffers £3.5m loss after £51m profit the year before

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The Sun’s revenues fell 5.5% to £489m, due, says the report, “to continuing market decline in newspaper circulation, particularly for the popular segment”.Last month, the paper revealed that some 225,000 subscribers had signed up for online packages, which it regarded as a success, but it did not compensate for the continuing decline in print revenues.

NDM 19

Sony hack: North Korea threatens strike against White House after accusing Barack Obama of spreading rumors of cyber-attack.

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In this article, North Korea are upset with what Obama said about the sony hack.The Guardians of Peace (GOP) have made various threats relating to terrorism and the September 11 attacks that have drawn the attention of U.S. security agencies. North Korean state-sponsored hackers are suspected of being involved in part due to specific threats made toward Sony and movie theaters showing The Interview, a film about an assassination attempt against Kim Jong-un. North Korean officials had previously expressed concerns about the film to the United Nations, stating that "to allow the production and distribution of such a film on the assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign state should be regarded as the most undisguised sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war."

In my opinion, I think the US are playing mind games. they are using a strategy the one time or another, other countries have used. The North Korea leader is very intimidating and the rumours can do one of two things. Either stop I'm intimidating the US, or make those threats, promises.

NDM 23

Digital giants get bigger at the expense of the small blog sites

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 How huge is the market now? Well, three years ago, AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315m (£200m), after the site posted 2010 revenues of $30.7m (£19.7m). That was a huge deal, which cemented HuffPo’s top-dog status. Today, by contrast, both figures look downright modest.

Nick Denton, founder and owner of Gawker Media, recently revealed his company has $60m (£38m) in revenues. The man Denton considers his arch-rival, BuzzFeed boss Jonah Peretti, has already seen his 2014 revenues surpass $100m(£63m), and is giving each of his 700 employees an Apple Watch to celebrate. He can afford it: he raised $50m (£32m) in new venture capital this summer, from a single investor, at a valuation of $850m (£541m).

And that’s just the start. Business Insider raised $12m (£7.6m) in March, at a $100m (£63m) valuation, after Mashable raised $13m (£8m) in January. Vox Media raised $46.5m (£29.6m) in November, at a valuation of $380m (£242m).Automattic, the owner of Wordpress.com, raised $160m(£102m) in May, valuing the company at $1.16bn (£738m). And then, dwarfing all the others, Vice Media raised an eye-popping $500m (£318m), in a deal which valued the company at $2.5bn (£1.59bn). What’s more, founder Shane Smith is now telling anybody who’ll listen that he’s going to have $1bn (£630m) in revenues in 2015, which makes the valuation almost seem modest.

In my opinion, this again shows the Marxist values in regards to online firms, as only the big survive. This means there is a lot of control by the giants and they can buy those smaller firms, or kick the out of the market by using revenue to invest in research and development. 

NDM 22

Media industry finds revenue in places it once scorned
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In 2014, ad revenue from print, digital and events grew a record 28%, a spokeswoman said. She declined to provide dollar figures or give a breakdown of the categories, but said digital ad revenue was up 54% and represented "a significant majority" of overall ad revenue.
Like Gawker, BuzzFeed, Vox Media and Slate, Atlantic Media—which includes The Atlantic, Quartz and National Journal—had rapid audience growth this past year. Its number of unique visitors across all its sites on both mobile and desktop was up 57% in October, to 22.7 million, compared with October 2013, according to comScore.
That pales besides BuzzFeed's 74.6 million, New York Times Digital's 64.4 million, Gawker's 53.8 million and Vox Media's 50.7 million. But it's enough.

In my opinion, Ads are good for revenue, but now there are alot of search engines online, meaning newspapers will not make as much money as the internet as they have concentration of audience. 

NDM 21

The Future Of Digital Media In 2015

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"2014 proved to be a transformational year for content-driven digital media and investment (a new “golden age” of content I predicted for TechCrunch at the beginning of this year)."

According to this article, 2015 will contain (1) The mobile-driven, premium, short-form video economy “grows up,” and traditional media companies take notice on a mass scale.

(2) Major consumer brands follow suit and act in earnest.

(3) YouTube comes under siege from competing video platforms like Facebook and Vessel.

(4) Traditional pay TV packages likewise come under fire in the “Great Unbundling” that began in 2014.

(5) Media and tech companies will literally converge.

(6) On the music side, businesses move away from stand-alone services. 

(7) Gamers see real action too.

(8) Gamers take to wearables.

In my opinion, I think some of these thoughts may be true, but we cannot take this as gospel. You may need to take those thoughts with a pinch of salt meaning we need to wait for the end of 2015 to review whether what was said by Peter Csathy.

NDM 20

Students: stop dreaming of a job in journalism – and get to work

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This article encourages people with dreams of becoming a journalist to do more than just a journalism degree. In order to get a job in that particular field you need to have experience like writing columns in student newspapers according to the guardian. Jonathan Baker, a former head of the BBC’s College of Journalism, says media companies put a high value on a candidate’s ability to demonstrate their commitment to a career in journalism.

Qualities such as energy, enthusiasm, flair, imagination, analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and “a reluctance to accept things at face value”, are also crucial, says Baker.

In my opinion, I think it is good to go to university to do a degree which is a little more broad than the field you want to go into, giving a graduate more opportunities to get a job and succeed. However, it may be a little too late for older people to change their courses and people who are in the last year of collage and sixth form. It is a valuable comment, but it may have been said a little too late.