WHO SUPPLIES THE PICTURES AND WORDS?
I will segregate this answer into two parts; local news and international news.
Local news. All the local news and written by local journalists. The photos are also taken by local photojournalists.
International news. Most of the international news is taken from Reuters, Bernama or AFP. Pictures included.
For example, THIS ARTICLE was taken from AFP. THIS ARTICLE was taken from Reuters and THIS ARTICLE was taken from Bernama.
HOW MUCH OF IT IS BROUGHT IN OR SELF GENERATED?
Local news are self generated while international news are brought in from Reuters, Bernama and AFP. It's cheaper to bring in news from other news agencies because they can cut costs on travelling fees and other expenses spent on journalists.
GOOD JOURNALISM VS CHEAP JOURNALISM
“Good journalism does not often topple a president, but it frequently changes the lives of citizens, both grand and ordinary.”
“Good journalism holds communities together in times of crisis, providing the information and the images that constitute shared experiences.”
“Bad journalism — failing to report important news, or reporting news shallowly, inaccurately or unfairly — can leave people dangerously uninformed.”
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
HOW DOES YOUR SITE MAKE MONEY? plus privacy issues?
When browsing through TBPO, I realised that the only way they make money is through cookies, advertisements and subscriptions. Cookies are also known as as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the user's previous activity.
Though TBPO earns money through cookies, we can disable cookies via "resetting your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent."
Besides that, TBPO also makes money through google advertisements.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON TBPO
When going through the terms and conditions on the site, I found it rather straight forward and not misleading like the other websites that my classmates chose. They segregated the terms and conditions into a few points; what personal information do we collect? Cookies? How do we use your personal data? To whom might we disclose your personal data? Direct marketing? Links? Security and Contacts.
The only thing that I found questionable was the fact that TBPO uses their visitors personal data to monitor the use of the website to record traffic flows and to carry out research about our visitors’ and customers’ demographics, interests and behaviour.
They then did point out that visitors to the site may withdraw their consent to their use of these data at any time by emailing the administrator of TBPO.
TBPO also added that "We may also provide your personal data to businesses (which may or may not be companies in our group) which may be located outside Malaysia and who may use the data to send you information about other products or services. However, you may opt out of your personal data being used in this way when we collect your personal data."
All in all, TBPO had straight forward terms and conditions and didn't try to hide anything from their visitors.
Though TBPO earns money through cookies, we can disable cookies via "resetting your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent."
Besides that, TBPO also makes money through google advertisements.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON TBPO
When going through the terms and conditions on the site, I found it rather straight forward and not misleading like the other websites that my classmates chose. They segregated the terms and conditions into a few points; what personal information do we collect? Cookies? How do we use your personal data? To whom might we disclose your personal data? Direct marketing? Links? Security and Contacts.
The only thing that I found questionable was the fact that TBPO uses their visitors personal data to monitor the use of the website to record traffic flows and to carry out research about our visitors’ and customers’ demographics, interests and behaviour.
They then did point out that visitors to the site may withdraw their consent to their use of these data at any time by emailing the administrator of TBPO.
TBPO also added that "We may also provide your personal data to businesses (which may or may not be companies in our group) which may be located outside Malaysia and who may use the data to send you information about other products or services. However, you may opt out of your personal data being used in this way when we collect your personal data."
All in all, TBPO had straight forward terms and conditions and didn't try to hide anything from their visitors.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
WHO OWNS YOUR SITE?
The site that I've chosen is The Borneo Post and is the largest English news site in Borneo.
The Borneo Post is owned by Borneo Post Online Sdn Bhd and is an independent company. Now, here's the confusing bit; Borneo Post Online Sdn Bhd is owned by KTS Media Berhad and KTS Media Berhad is owned by KTS Group (they venture into different industries like construction, timber, electronics, etc.)
The Borneo Post is the largest English-language daily newspaper on the island of Borneo published in 1978. It is widely circulated in Sabah & Sarawak including Labuan & Brunei. It is the most popular English daily by circulation in the entire East Malaysia. So that makes The Borneo Post Online, the online version of the hard copy newspaper.
The Borneo Post is owned by Borneo Post Online Sdn Bhd and is an independent company. Now, here's the confusing bit; Borneo Post Online Sdn Bhd is owned by KTS Media Berhad and KTS Media Berhad is owned by KTS Group (they venture into different industries like construction, timber, electronics, etc.)
The Borneo Post is the largest English-language daily newspaper on the island of Borneo published in 1978. It is widely circulated in Sabah & Sarawak including Labuan & Brunei. It is the most popular English daily by circulation in the entire East Malaysia. So that makes The Borneo Post Online, the online version of the hard copy newspaper.
When I first visited the site, I had to find out who the driving force of the technology behind the website is. Technology in this context meaning the website's social media, use of Youtube, etc. So what I found out is that The Borneo Post Online (TBPO) has Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube and even an RSS Feed. They have links to all their social at the top on the website.
- TBPO also has their own app, though it's only available for Androids at the moment.
- TBPO update their Facebook and Twitter feeds regularly and use their YouTube account to upload weekly news updates
- TBPO also shows the current state of the stock market in Malaysia in the form of a KLSE Chart.
So, from what I gather, the driving force of technology in the website is from the producers and consumers. The producers have social media sites to update the readers about headlines in the news. On the other hand, consumers are too, the driving force of technology in the website because consumers are able to "start a discussion" (aka write a comment) on individual news articles and post the comment on various social networking sites like Disqus, Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus).
I guess the benefits of having content from the producers is that they can monitor what is fed to the public. We wouldn't want wrong messages to get out and tarnish the name of the company, now would we? But on the other hand, although the consumers have a say in the content, their comments are always monitored by the producers, as seen in their "commenting rules".
Any form of "cross-promotion" in the website? No. The site is strictly only TBPO content, besides the advertising of the other newspapers owned by KTS Media Berhad like See Hua Online (news in Chinese), Utusan Borneo (news in Bahasa Malaysia, the national language in Malaysia), etc.
I guess the benefits of having content from the producers is that they can monitor what is fed to the public. We wouldn't want wrong messages to get out and tarnish the name of the company, now would we? But on the other hand, although the consumers have a say in the content, their comments are always monitored by the producers, as seen in their "commenting rules".
Any form of "cross-promotion" in the website? No. The site is strictly only TBPO content, besides the advertising of the other newspapers owned by KTS Media Berhad like See Hua Online (news in Chinese), Utusan Borneo (news in Bahasa Malaysia, the national language in Malaysia), etc.
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