How do we do journalism differently in the digital age?
There are new ways of doing journalism as the digital revolution moves on. But what are these innovations? How do they work? How are they changing journalism, and with what effects? City University London is hosting a panel discussion on 28 January to explore these developments and the challenges they pose.
Those taking part will be: Andrew Jaspan, founder and chief executive of The Conversation, a site publishing news and commentary by academic experts, which is based at City; Luke Lewis, editor of the UK edition of Buzzfeed.com; Anette Novak, chief executive of Sweden's Interactive Institute, which experiments with interaction design and data visualisation; and Sarah Hartley, co-founder and editor of Contributoria, who was involved intalkaboutlocal.org.uk, prolificnorth.co.uk and The Guardian's notice start-up.
Journalism now involves others writing news articles which are not even professional journalists due to the development of new and digital media and the fact that people nowadays have smartphones which enable them to video anything anywhere within a matter of seconds. This empowers audiences as they now can create news articles and create blogs on anything they want due to the internet. They have freedom of speech (to a certain extent).
Beats Music reveals US launch plans, but can it drown out Spotify?
Dr Dre and Trent Reznor among launch team for new streaming music service, promising curation and family-friendly pricing
Dr Dre's headphones brand Beats will launch its Beats Music streaming music service on 21 January in the US, competing with Spotify, Rhapsody and Google Play Music All Access. The company has been working on the service for more than a year, having hired Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor as chief creative officer, and digital music industry veteran Ian Rogers as chief executive at the start of 2013. In December, Rogers had promised that Beats Music would launch in January, but over the weekend the company confirmed the date, price, initial distribution partners and more details on how the service will try to differentiate itself from the competition, although for now, it will only be available in the US.
Unlike Spotify, there will be no free element to Beats Music beyond an initial 30-day free trial. Subscribers will pay $9.99 a month for unlimited access to a catalogue of more than 20m songs through apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices, as well as a website for desktop access.
"Beats Music combines the emotion only a human created playlist can give you with the best personalisation technology can deliver," said Rogers in a statement. "With this you get not just the music experience only a talented DJ or music expert can deliver, but also the right one for you right now."
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