185. Name: Normahfuzah Ahmad Title: 24-hour Television News Channels: Challenges in Contemporary Media (the Cases of BBC and Al Jazeera) Institution: University of Glasgow Country: United Kingdom Date: 2019 Language: English Abstract: This thesis examines the challenges in contemporary media facing 24-hour global television news channels and their effects on news content and sustainability. Its focus is on three areas: (1) Changes in technology that affect the production of news at 24-hour news channels (2) How these changes affect the channels’ news values and agendas (3) Strategies adopted to overcome the challenges posed by a digitalized environment for the distribution of news, to sustain itself as a news platform. Findings from this study are from two sources of evidence with semi-structured interviews with journalists working for the BBC, BBC World News, Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Media Network as the primary source. The findings demonstrate affordances primarily brought forth by mobile phone technology through immediacy and interactive features, are changing method of news production. The thesis concludes that technological changes, particularly mobile phones, have changed practices in television news production and added new criteria within the journalistic discourse on news values. Mobile technology forced news production to give more allowance for audiences in shaping news content, particularly through User Generated Content and social media
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