Artefact: Five continues from the previous artefact, and examined in more depth the effect that accessibility and interactivity has had on news.
This artefact allowed members of the public to create a news article after being given the task of creating "a news article on the effect that extreme weather conditions are having on the local area”. Each news article would be completed with a questionnaire which established the decision making processes which were made by each member of the public, and see the impact they had on the news article.
Originally more members of the public were contacted about creating their own version of a news article, unfortunately only three final news articles were received. Ideally more news articles would have been preferred to evaluate findings and their significance.
The idea of getting people to create a news article was to compare and evaluate each news article and establish what effect user generated news had on the role of a news gatherer. The findings resulted in discovering that the relationship between the news gatherer and the audience is changing, as the audience is shifting from being a passive viewer of news to now actively seeking to be a part of news.
This artefact has established that the addition of user generated news articles has given the news gatherer an alternative source of where to gather news information and content from, and has also allowed professional news gatherers to be able to include user footage in their news articles if the news gatherer is unable to attend the scene.
Each producer of the news article felt the single most important feature of a news article is the content. These audience demands have meant the news gatherer has had to adapt their approach to producing news articles to what is expected from the audience.
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