SHAUN KEENAN-MY MEDIA STORY

MY GAME CHANGING NEWS EVENT

HISTORY

• By 2002, "an organised trade in confidential personal information" had developed in Britain and was widely used by the British newspaper industry.• Illegal means of gaining information used included hacking the private voicemail accounts on mobile phones, hacking into computers, making false statements to officials, entrapment, blackmail, burglaries, theft of mobile phones and making payments to public officials

NEWS OF THE WORLD: HACKING SCANDAL CASE

• The News International phone-hacking scandal is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other newspapers published by News International.• 13 November 2005 – Clive Goodman story in

News of the World raises suspicions of voicemail hacking of the Royal Family.

KEY DATES

• 13 November 2005 – Clive Goodman story in News of the World raises suspicions of voicemail hacking of the Royal Family.

• 8 July 2009 – The Guardian publicly reveals wider scope of phone hacking

• April 10, 2011 - News of the World officially apologizes for hacking into voicemails from 2004 to 2006, setting up a compensation system to unnamed victims.

• 7 July 2011 News International announce the closure of the News of the World, with the last edition to be published on 10 July

KEY DATES

• 15 July 2011 – Rebakah Brooks and Les Hinton both resign.• 19 July 2011- Brooks, Rupert Murdoch and

James Murdoch appeared before the parliamentary media committee in London for questioning

LEGACY AND EFFECTS

• Biggest Newspaper Phone hacking Scandal ever known • One of the biggest News agency’s in the

world came under heavy pressure. • News of The World closed 2011• Restrictions and heavy investigations into

newspaper ethics • IPSO setup after failure PCC

MY TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

Twitter

OVERVIEW

• Founded 21 March 2006

• Seamless integration of web and mobile messaging

- Send images, videos, voice clips, text & documents

- Message 140 characters therefore get messages across faster than other social media’s

INNOVATION

• Hash Tagging – #Hastag meant that people around the world could talk about the same thing at te same time.• Trending was also another big innovation as it

showed people around the world what was important or popular otherwise know as what's trending.

MY MEDIA

BACKGROUND OF YOUTUBE

• Launched in May 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. • YouTube provides a forum for people to connect,

inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.• It is now own by Google.

YOUTUBE

• Youtube is a service where people can watch different genres of videos. It has been a media revelation. • Everything from Let’s Play to News footage to

music videos can be upload and usually found first on Youtube