Court Report
On Thursday the 25th of February 2010 NICKY Harley a court journalist came in and talked to us about her journalist life experience in courts. Through the talk we realised how dangerous sometimes, interesting the other times and vital at all the times the job that she is doing.
Mrs Harley started the talk with a brief history of her work as journalist, as how she started the first time in reporting from the crown court in Bradford in till she moved to the crown court in Hull, reporting for Hull Daily Mail.
In the crown court there are many cases, and as many they are as different they are, and every day, and as a journalist her job inside the court is taking written notes (not recorded) and here where the job gets difficult, writing or reporting a false note could lead the journalist into troubles, such as fine and loosing the job, which means that the reporter must write what they hear not what he or she imagines. She also mentioned the trust. Trust is very important between the court and the journalist and breaking this trust will always lead into a fine that goes up to thousands of pounds. Knowing your rights and responsibilities as a journalist in the crown court is done by a course set before starting the actual job, and then passing the law exam would enable you to report in courts.
She was asked about the internet growing and the growth of the social networks and what extents do they trust the content of these networks. She said; such networks are less likely to be trusted as news, but in some cases they could be used.
Nicky gave us examples of her previous stories, that she has reported and had been published, they some were terrifying, sad, and even some were suitable to be a film story, but in general all these stories has one theme which was the attraction style stories that makes you want to read them to the end.
Building ties is important, despite there is a danger, but it helps to write a balanced story, and she told us how she has experienced a dangerous drama of a criminal who has attempted to escape during the interview.
Carrying a previous knowledge about the case that you about to report is important for:
• Preparing the symbols and abbreviations.
• Following the events in sequence.
• Identifying the dark corners and where to put the concentration lights on whilst the case is going on.
news story1:
First time train that links north by south through the eastern coast.
The east riding will start their twenty four hours journeys, on Friday the first of January, in a big ceremony preparation in London and Edinburgh, as two trains will depart at the same time in a different destinations, one goes towards north, and vice versa for the other train.
The E.R.T. spokesman Carl korshall said the trains are going to appear in brand new looking trains, from in and outside, the service is a lot better than any other train service in the nation, according to the better and faster services, the E.R.T. are very strict and punctual, which means no delays.
The journey will be a lot faster than any other train, which links the north with south from the western side of the nation, reduce the stops during the main journey making the destination is faster and reachable, apart from the main big cities that the rail will be going through.
Providing better service than ever, the fastest mobile internet connection is only could be found on the E.R.T. and it is absolutely free for the laptop users and phones with 3rd generation system, as well as the main meals with limit number of refreshments to each passenger.
The prices are fixed at any time during the year, which means no seasonal raise at the fares, with cheaper deals to those who are booking in advanced, and online bookers, the service is using simply user guide to those who are booking online, as well as the giving a great booklet guide list of the hotels, with a wide variety of prices.
Refurbished trains will be used, but the passenger won’t be able to recognise as they have ever been used before, especially by travelling on them, and try the most comfortable seats, the E.R.T. has signed a contract with an Italian company, to design their seats to be the best in the world.
The loyalty card holders;
The holders of these cards will be able to have cheaper tickets, in comparison with those who are for the first time, for those who are travelling with them on their first journey which is on the first of January; they will have the chance to gain three journeys at once. To find out more about how to book an online journey take a look at the website below;
Or call them on: 0800 6340 600 2
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GATELEY, WAS IT A DEATH OR MURDER?
Stephens’s partner the 31year old Andrew Cowles said to the daily Mail he was left heartbroken after a night out in Majorca, where Stephen was having his last holiday.
With more details from here and there about the death, according to the police theory about the issue and how they found the singer of the Boyzon well they didn’t find him at first, the Bulgarian man who does first… Who are the police put him as innocent from a crime or not a crime, by telling the journalist “We do not think this man is involved in any way in Stephen’s death but his testimony could prove vital.” 1.45pm when the police was to the scene where Stephen and Andrew spent Friday night together in an apartment of one million pound in the up market resort of Port d’Andratx.
Stephen was dead in his pyjamas on the sofa in a very strange position according to investigator “He was squatting on the sofa, almost in a praying position.” But at anyway the lost of Stephen Gateley was a great loss to the musical world and that’s what the Lord Lloyd- Webber comment about the incident
STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES OVER POP STAR DEATH.
Stephen Gateley was found dead in very dark circumstances. There appears to be many secrets behind the sudden death of the pop star that we have known for two decades first, with Irish boy band Boyzone, then with a successful solo career. The death happened in Spain where he was on holiday.
The Spanish police was called after on Saturday afternoon to a house near Port d’Andratx on the western tip of the island on Saturday and investigate the death of a very famous pop star who was Mr. Gateley. He stayed with his partner Andrew Cowles at an apartment that estimate £1 million in Majorca, after spending Friday night in out. But what had happened after that night out? Still under investigation. According to the police there weren’t any signs of murder or suicide also any signs of poison, drugs or alcohol involvement.
“Still busy – lots going on. Focussing on finishing my book next so may be quiet here.” This was found the BBC news website it was the last message that Stephen add on twitter although the investigation didn’t come out with anything yet about the nature of the death of Mr. Gateley but without a doubt he died after coming back to the apartment where he was staying which is called d’Andratx
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Essay :
Visits and researches
During the three visits to the most popular media organisations and producers in Hull, by exploring and discussing how each visit was different from the other and how each organisation was participating and contributing in the process of building a better public knowledge. Each media organisation I visited was divided into many sections and some sections were divided, in these visits we met people who are in charge and responsibility, they have told us how their organisation changed through the years, in terms of technology and the Digital revolution.
Watching or listening to media organisation since you were a baby and in till nowadays is different than going inside, seeing the work being done in front of you and especially talking to sector manager or even going to an on air at the radio news broadcasting room, and this is what we did in the previous weeks, visiting the BBC headquarter at Hull. The BBC is a state owned organisation funded by the annual television licence fee (from the public) which was first introduced on summer. In 1968, a ‘colour supplement’ of five pounds was added to the existing five pounds monochrome licence fee; the combined colour licence fee was therefore ten pounds, the equivalent of a hundred and twenty in 2006. The current (2009) cost is hundred and Forty two for colour TV and forty eight pounds for monochrome TV.
The BBC is a local, national and international extensive organisation divided into teams as it shown bellow:
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Trust unit Director- General’s Office |
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Content group |
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Professional services |
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Commercial Groups |
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Journalism (Incorporates news, global news and sports) |
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Vision Incorporates TV prod. And commissioning |
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Audio& Music Radio& Music production |
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Future media & technology Web development
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Operations Policy, strategy, legal, property& distribution |
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Marketing, communications and Audiences |
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BBC worldwide |
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BBC studios & post production |
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The BBC is divided into five sections locally, according to the regions of the United Kingdom. In our visit to our local BBC headquarter of Hull and east Yorkshire section we met with Jeremy Buxton the manager of the former Hull Big screen, which was first launched in Britain in 2003 in Manchester followed by the idea that was first set in Berlin. It was very successful especially in the coverage of the big events such as the World Cup. The Big Screen idea is to locate it in a place where to capture as many viewers as possible and that is exactly what happened in Manchester. The BBC placed their Big Screen on a famous shopping mall near the train station in the centre of the city where it has up to sixty thousand viewers per day during their twenty four hours public broadcasting and for seven days a week. According to Mr. Buxton the BBC is planning and with councils to plant Big Screens in each big city of the United Kingdom (to cover London’s Olympic Games).
How the BBC changed through the decades?
Since 1936 to 2009 there were great changes occurred to the BBC…. From black and white TV channels to digital channel that launched in 1999 in a primary steps for six educational broadcasting hours per day. In November 2001 the BBC starts broadcasting a channel called Knowledge that works for twenty four hours a day for seven days a week and that new channel works with Digital Terrestrial Television instead of SDN Muxing system. Dates from the BBC website.
Another interesting visit, this time to a wide local newspaper for the Kingston upon
Hull area which has had a variety of guises since 1885, it is Hull Daily Mail. This organisation has won award of the Daily Newspapers of the Year 2007, 2006, 2004 and 2003 in the region of Yorkshire as well as wining a great compliment for its work in video journalism on the internet. The newspaper has s readership of around seventeen thousand or in other word buyers through six days a week apart from Sundays. The Hull Daily Mail is owned by Northcliffe Media group a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe, In November 2005, they announced that they wanted to sell Northcliffe Newspapers, at the time worth over £1.5bn. Northcliffe website.
As we visited the Hull daily mail and spoken with its editor John Meehan. John is responsible for papers across the North East (Hull, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Boston and Lincoln) he had shown us the different sections or the specialization inside the same organisation as each editor was specialised in certain area in the news paper such as local news , business, and advertisement s , sports and etc. And naturally each person inside a massive organisation such as Hull Daily Mail is having a different role.
The above newspaper has and during the week day’s especial topic supplement and set up with each day of the week these are the examples of how each day supplement:
- Monday – Extra Time (sport), The Match (Hull City Association foot ball club reports)
- Tuesday – Female
- Wednesday – The Business
- Thursday – Find a Property
- Friday – motors.co.uk
- Saturday – The Guide (entertainment magazine, includes TV listings) see bibliography 3
As we spoken with Deputy Editor David Bourn the responsible for day to day he said ‘the Hull Daily Mail previously as evening paper which has now become a morning paper’ In terms of changes through the digital revolution, ‘the association has integrated newsroom –multimedia journalists, working on newspaper/internet /email bulletins’ Meehan. As well as the Hull Daily Mail started recently adding more valuable materials on their official website, such as news, sports, business, advertisements and many more plus their previous days publishes.
A Swedish company started metro in Newcastle drawing in new audience (Metro man) the idea of free papers on the streets is step to educate the public, and make it true that anyone can value the good and bad quality of journal, editor or news story. In London it started with the Metro then the Londoner and then the Lite.
The Omerta computer game idea was first started in 2003 by Moritz Daan in Netherlands, it was set as a computer game that could be played by certain age of people, and it found lots of fans not only on the nation wide but it was also on the global wide where ever where the net was available, according to initial development Steve Beddick from Hull purchased all Omerta`s shares and moved their headquarter from Netherlands to the Hull in 2004.
Since 2004 and by the nature of the game that meant to be played on the computers only, it made the producers more updating or on the track to follow the changing of the context in wider sector according to the technology development. Here are some examples of the development that occur to the group since 2004:
In July 2004, version 2.0 reached its end of life as the game was slow and unstable. The source code was reviewed and partially rewritten to accommodate more players and a click limit was introduced. New servers were rent to run the new game and it was relaunched during the same month as version 2.1.
In July 2005, Omerta 2.2 was launched. After this, the game was upgraded and reset roughly every six months, usually increasing the minor version. Major new features were introduced in version 2.4, like Mega Organized Crimes and a new kill algorithm. In Juli 2009 the last version was released under the version 3.0
In January 2008 Omerta moved to a new service provider and currently has about 20 servers running the FreeBSD operating system.
In July 2009 version 3.0 of Omerta was released, and is currently the active version on Omerta, in the first month after the release more then 100 000 players registered for this version. Thirteen1.magazine
The structure of the company is a small business, where is every body is sharing the work with others and they are all at the end doing one single job, there aim to produce one piece of work that suit all the ages of the public use, and more sales for the games that they all produced together.
Conclusion;
I understood in this essay that how each sector’s divisions means how wide the media sector and how vital for the public sphere, and how important to change the context of the wider sector. I believe now that the future of print news papers and other print materials wouldn’t last long according to the digital revolution and the availability of the internet nowadays in a comparison to very short period of time ago.
Bibliography:
1. www.wickepedia./bbc digital
3. holdthefrontpage.co.uk
4. www. Thirteen1.com
