Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Lecture 7: Digital Audio and Broadcast Journalism

Broadcast journalism has changed as much as print journalism.



One of the first things I teach my students is: "Online, the simplest way to add value is to save the user time."That...
Posted by Jay Rosen on Tuesday, March 1, 2016

To look at the changes it may be useful to consider radio and television broadcasting separately, starting with radio.

One characteristic of the digital shift is disaggregation. Breaking things down in to component parts. Concatenation is chaining disaggregated components together to create something new.

Like newspapers, legacy radio has shifted online. Analog radio is still available but is evolving.

CBC Saskatchwan 540. The lower the number the bigger the signal. Had a tower at Watrous, Sask that reached the whole province. FM signals disperse over distance so the listener must be closer to the signal.
Most CBC Radio or Radio Canada shows are available for live streaming or podcast. Let's people time shift and  control their listening experience.

 Radio journalism covers similar beats but stories can have a different forma and emphasis.

 Usually shorter but not always.
Digital radio options for everyone. Anyone can be a journalism, anyone can be a broadcaster. As Shiry demonstrated, Here Comes Everybody. Radio used to be an expensive proposition with respect to delivery mechanism, you needed studios, towers, radio bands, journalists, editors, etc.
Now it is essentially free.

 Live Digital Broadcasting or Streaming
 Mixlr.
 BlogTalk Radio

Podcasting Technicals
Vocaroo
Audacity
Internet Archive
SoundCloud
Screamer Radio

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