What have you learned about your own media use and how you access news content?

Generally I don't look at the news very often, if at all really. the main way I'll see a headline is if it is shared on social media, or if I'm notified by the news app on my phone.

There are lots of news organisations all over social media which share information straight from there own website through links. This could lead a large audience to enter their website and would then create more income for the company. Social media, such as Facebook, is a growing source for news to be published and read. Lots of people sharing the same article will spread it around the whole of Facebook through friends and their friends. However there are also downsides to this as some pages tend to share clickbait stories which are fake and only there to create controversy. Lots of pages are sharing this type of content lately, such as UniLad or Ladbible, which is why I only ever read into headlines published by big news companies such as the BBC news or Sky news. If they are not from well known news companies then I usually suspect it to be fake or unreliable.

One story which I had seen over the past few weeks was that North Korea had tested ballistic missiles by firing them over japan. This was published by The BBC which are a trusted source for real news and not fake. In the article, it has statements from the president of America, Donald Trump, and from the North Korean ambassador, Han Tae-song, to the UN. This story was widely published along different forms of media which shows its severity and how we should all take notice of it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41078187

For me, I discover the breaking stories from the Iphone news app which notifies me every time a new article is published by the big news companies. I found out about all of the tension in North Korea through this app as it shares all the major headlines from the biggest news companies and displays them in one place. This is one of the main ways in which the younger generations will get their news as they don't watch news programs like the older generations did. More and more people each day are changing to access new news online as it has wider accessibility and can be updates as soon as a key event happens.

There are endless capabilities to how much news will be available to us at our fingertips but will always be fake articles published on forms of social media. On the BBC news app, you can filter the news to just show you the areas you want such as; Sports, Technology, The E.U, Brexit and so on. This filters all of the news that you aren't interested in and makes it more specific to you. This also cancels out all of the 'clickbait' or 'fake news' as this is all published and checked by the BBC who's aims are to 'inform, educate and entertain'. Them wishing to 'inform' us shows that they would need lots of members of the company to constantly be doing research and getting the most in-depth understanding of recent and new events.