Category: News

Good news and bad news for the women of Australia, written by Ittima Cherastidtham, and published by The Sydney Morning Herald on the 16th of September 2018, discusses the prevalent issue of gender inequality in the workplace in Australia. Some of the language techniques utilized by the writer to explain his stands on the gender…

Both the ABC and nine news networks are now an integral part of the radio, television and online production industries in Australia, in recent times both have played an important role in digital broadcasting and the introduction of new media services. The ABC being a national broadcaster has largely conformed to its service charter which…

Most news is just press releases and breathless exaggerations of isolated problems Being born right after the turn of the century, I grew up on the cusp of old-fashioned news and the transition into social media. I remember excitedly waiting every Sunday morning for the paper to arrive and get the youthful thrill of feeling…

News happens every day everywhere, from continents to regions, from states to people, which has proximity to our everyday life. As the era evolves, news has combined with the developed technology, transform itself from the old printed newspaper to the convenience online newspaper, which alters the way people engage with it through media convergence. The…

In just a few years, news consumption in the world has changed significantly. Information overload is an offshoot of such change. The first observation from this trend is that users are exposed to a sheer amount of information. The information available does not correspond with the brains ability to process information leading to information overload.…

Representation is created by humans, and it is impossible for humans to be completely objective, which is why there cannot be unbiased representations of the world. Therefore, I agree with what Richard Dyer said that representation never ‘gets’ reality to a large extent. Representation only can show part of reality at most, and it can…

The case of the U.S.-Mexico border and how the region and its peoples are portrayed by the news media historically and contemporarily provides a striking, although sobering, explanation for why and how, the fearmongering dialogue resulted of more than 62.9 million voters casting their ballots in favor of a candidate who seemed ready at every…

The print medium is the oldest form of media in India, the first newspaper that was published in India was the Bengal Gazette, in the year 1780. Print medium has played an important role during the freedom struggle movement be it in the in the form of newsletters, notices, journals etc. it helped inform people,…

In the past few years, online news starts to become a trend for people getting information in mainland China, but how can we tell some news that appears on online are reliable? Where reliability became the major concern of news. This essay will investigate more on the impact of online news, and how does it…

Soft news, also known as market-focused broadcasting, is the category and reporting manner that diminishes the border linking amusement and information together. Despite the fact that the word soft news was initially similar to feature news put in papers or TV reports for the individual intrigue, the idea extended to incorporate a wide scope of…