"What are the pressures that are reshaping the contemporary news media publishing industry, as it adapts to opportunities made available by online platforms?"
In order to achieve my aforementioned aim, I looked back at my previous artefacts and assessed my conclusions and the progression I made along with the reasons for that progression.
Firstly, I had already gained evidence to suggest that 'infotainment' (news in the form of video/audio/images) is becoming more and more of an expectancy with consumers, as the Internet has matured and connections have improved. This has put an increasing amount of pressure on news organisations to deliver news in a variety of formats in addition to just text.
I also found that Citizen Journalism (amateur/untrained footage) has become more prolific with the growth of the Internet, due to the availability of web space (namely, blos). Additionally, the freedom they enjoy to write more subjective and conversational content has put pressure on the professional news organisations to ensure they can still provoke similar or greater levels of interest with their consumers.
So, with the above points at the forefront of my mind, I felt that a logical progression for my final artefact would be to address whether a combination of infotainment and citizen journalism could really pressure the online news industry into reshaping their business models in order to allow public contribution of media content to assist news stories that would otherwise be text based.
With a firm foundation in place for my final research artefact, it's time to start planning the actual thing!
