...BBC News/Business By Stephen Mahon Relevant topics – 1. First Impressions 2. Home 3. Content 4. Navigation 5. Target Audience 6. Look and Feel 7. Final Thoughts * The URL is extremely simple, easy to remember and quick to use. * The loading is almost instant with BBC. * It can be easily read by a certain type of audience. This part of the website is most defiantly geared toward a business or political enthusiast. * Colourful yet congested on certain pages. * No software is needed to be downloaded to view this site. * There is quite a bit of information below the fold regarding BBC business. All pages are narrow and can be lengthy with stories. * BBC Business contains up to date factual stories from around the world and delivers on the interest factor. The selective choice of words coupled with relevant, sometimes funny imagery leaves you feeling that you’ve grasped and understood certain stories. * Registration is optional on this site although it’s not necessary. Every page is still accessible to a first time visitor without signing up. * The BBC is factual, informative, up to date and easily accessible but it lags behind a smidge in the arrangement of its stories on the page. Congestion is a problem. * The BBC to my knowledge is available in 27 other languages. These include Portuguese, Arabic and Chinese to name a few. Its accessibility for the disabled community is impeccable. Options include audio descriptive, signed and...
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...that we are launching a new Australia page which will be dedicated to giving you more news and features about Australia, as well as showcasing our coverage of Australian sport, business and areas like technology and entertainment. We have appointed a new Australia editor, Wendy Frew, who will be looking to broaden the range of stories we cover and offer in-depth features on selected stories. The BBC is a truly global news provider, and we believe we can put Australian news in its wider regional and global context. We are launching a new Twitter account, @BBCNewsAus, which will be key to our news coverage on social media. And we have improved the navigation at the top of some pages to make it easier to find Australian content. We're making the changes because Australia is home to one of our largest and most loyal audiences, and we want the BBC News website to better serve their interests and expectations. The changes are also part of a wider BBC commitment to Australia, which includes a redesigned BBC.com homepage for Australian readers, with a new layout and video player. The BBC will also be producing a series of programmes called Australia Direct to air on BBC World News throughout the upcoming G20 summit. We would be interested to hear what you think of the changes. UPDATE : Thank you for your comments so far. I should have made it clearer that all our expanded Australian coverage will be paid for by advertising, which appears on BBC sites outside the UK. None...
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...BBC 新闻讲解 2010-10-1 第 507 期 QIHUI 制作 可可英语:www.kekenet.com : (2010-10-01) BBC 新闻讲解附字幕:泰坦尼克号老年罗斯扮演者去世(2010-10-01) 查看原文 第一部分：听力文本 BBC News with Jonathan Izard The American State Department has expressed disappointment at Israel's decision not to extend its moratorium on settlement construction. The administration's Middle East envoy George Mitchell is heading back to the region to hold meetings with Israelis and Palestinians. The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he won't rush into a decision about whether to abandon the peace talks over the issue. Kim Ghattas reports from Washington. President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will consult with Palestinian leaders and then Arab foreign ministers at a regional meeting on 4th October. PJ Crowley, the State Department spokesman, said the US was hoping the Arab League would continue to support the negotiations. Despite weeks of international pressure, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not extend the moratorium. There is no deal in sight. But President Abbas is also under pressure not to walk out, and he will not want to be blamed for the failure of the talks. Official media in North Korea say the youngest son of the leader Kim Jong-il has been given the rank of general. Analysts said the promotion of Kim Jong-un could be the start of a succession process. More from John Sudworth in South Korea. Thought to be around 27 years old, Kim Jong-un has never been mentioned by North Korea's government-controlled media...
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...cphwest.dk/kulturelle_materialer/Engelsk_kulturelle.pdf * Working with Fiction (dokumenter): Read "The New Girl" * Litterature: 'My Son the Fanatic * Film analysis (oral): 'Crash' * Literary analysis of short stories relating to racial diversity, immigration and general social issues etc. * Texts: Aline's journey, The New Girl; The First Day (US society; Racism; Social class in the US); 'Little Things' by Raymond Carver; 'My Son the Fanatic' by Hanif Kureishi (UK Area Study); First Confession by Frank O'Connor (Ireland: an introduction-Religion). Film analysis. * Subjects related to sporting, social, political and economic themes. Films: Green Street Hooligans (Sport+UK society); Crash (US society); Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass (UK - Nothern Ireland); Bowling for Columbine (Guns in America). 2. UK: Area study * “Two Speed Britain” (s.54-s.63) fra bogen;” What’s up, Britain” * Tekster fra Current magazien "Margaret Thatcher", "The Rise of UKIP", "The Weird Foods Brits Love", "Jack the Ripper Stalks London" og "London's East End" * “My Son the fantastic” * Waterboys sang ”Old England” 3. USA: Political, Society and culture * "Mapping where English is not the language at home" By Dan Keating and Darla Cameron: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/us-language-map/ * Cadillac advert analysis: http://adage.com/article/news/cadillac-clears-misconceptions-poolside-ad/291925/ * Presentation and discussion on American values...
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...TONY HALL - Tony Hall is the 16th Director-General of the BBC. - As the Director-general of the BBC, he is the Chief Executive Officer, the Editor-in-Chief and he chairs the BBC’s Executive and Management Boards. - He was appointed Director-General of the BBC on 22 November 2012. - He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1973 and throughout his time at the corporation, he had several roles including Senior Producer at World at One, Assistant Editor of the Nine O’ Clock News, Output Editor for Newsnight and eventually becoming the Chief Executive of BBC News from 1996-2001. - He launched Radio 5 Live, BBC News 24, BBC Online and BBC Parliament. - He was appointed a CBE in 2005 and was made a life peer in 2010. He sits on the Crossbenches in...
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...To: Mr Finean From: Eliza Davenport Date: 30/09/13 “Business environment refers to different internal and external forces or surroundings that affect business operations.” – The Business Dictionary Task 1 - Pass 1 Marks and Spencer Mark and spencer’s is an international Pubic Limited Company (PLC.) Its headquarters are in the city of Westminster, London. With 703 stores in the United Kingdom and 361 other stores spread across 40 countries this Company is international. The company began on 28th of September by Michael Marks and tom Spencer, the offer the combination of both clothes and food shopping in one store which was one of the very few stores to do so. I think M&S’s main sources of threat are from large stores that sell clothes and/or foods such as Waitrose or Debenhams, even though they do not sell the option of both foods and clothes, they are still very well known and share the same market as M&S does, decreasing M&S’s market share. The company being a PLC means that it has a lot of shareholders, which makes it have more stakeholders than a private limited company would, M&S would want to be a PLC because the money spent by the public on shares will add to their revenue and help the company to grow quicker. There are advantages and disadvantages to this as every sector will have. Advantages of a Public Limited Company are; * The shareholders have limited liability, so if M&S ever lost a great amount of money the shareholders wouldn’t have to...
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...Walking the Talk: an Article for Critical Eye Archie Norman, the former CEO and Chair of the supermarket chain ASDA, left a haunting image when he spoke at a conference last week. He compared the store visits he engineered with those of ASDA's previous CEO. In the latter, a fleet of large cars would arrive at the Supermarket door and out would step 5, 6 or more senior executives. The store manager would be waiting patiently at the door. Hands would be shaken and the entourage would sweep down the aisles of the store. 'Hi, what do you do? You enjoy working here?' and then off to the next visit with a passing: 'tidy up that main display' to the manager on the way out. By contrast, Archie would go alone, park in the far corner of the car park, leaving the near spaces to shoppers who were spending money. He left his jacket in the car and walked unannounced into the store. He'd chat to customers: 'what do you like?', 'what could we do better?', 'thanks for shopping here' and to the staff: 'What's the best thing about working here? And the worst?' and finally he would talk to the manager, maybe over a coffee in the canteen. 'What can I do to make your life easier?' 'How's business?' A final walk round the store, maybe with the manger, then off to the car park to write any action notes to himself before setting off for the next visit. The point was not about the need to 'press the flesh' or be visible: it was how you got a realistic picture of what was going on and actually do...
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...CNN Library. "Mexico Drug War Fast Facts." CNN. Cable News Network, 15 Mar. 2014. Web. 29 Mar. 2014. This source came from a News website. Listed within the article were many random facts about the war and the cartels involved, as well a timeline of events up until March 9th, 2014 was also listed. I am not entirely sure if the article is bias or not. However, since it did come from a news website I would guess that it was indeed bias. Since I could not really detect any or at least very little bias and the fact that it was clearly up-to-date, this article would be a good source of simple facts about the drug war in general furthermore it would be good for learning more about a multitude of the cartels operating in Mexico. Morris, Stephan D. "Corruption, Drug Trafficking, And Violence In Mexico." Brown Journal Of World Affairs 18.2 (2012): 29-43. Academic Search Premier. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. I located this source via the Colorado State University Library data base page. Although, this source originally came from the “Brown Journal of World Affairs.” This 1source is very much credible because it is an actual research based study that ended up being reported and put onto an academic journal. As well, this report has been peer reviewed multiple times and in order for a report to actually be credible it needs to be reviewed a few times. In regards to the timeliness of the paper, it was published within the last one and a half years, this also adds to the credibility of the...
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...books and all around the countries to see how to make coffee. However, with the competitors in Thai premium coffee market: foreign chains, local chains and independent shops, the BBC maintains to excels in pride and profitability in the relationship between the Company and the customers, franchisees, employees, investors and suppliers. The company had a strategy going on to bring new ideas for the menu. BCC branched off with a concept of combining the tastes of East and West. Also, the new products was developed and existing products were improved. A lot of people love Thai food and the ideal was very operational to the customers and that brought the product quality to look different from all the other competitors. Additionally the company needed to consider the relative emphasis of domestic versus international expansion as well as the potential to diversify into other markets. Access to capital and supply chain in fracture were both tied to the growth targets that the firm pursed. The resource of the goals is to help develop knowledge and abilities of the team as professionals. Black Canyon is not just a coffee shop. It’s a full service restaurant serving not only coffee, but a full range of cooked international Thai food. This combination of the food and coffee operation is what makes BBC unique in its own way. The company had to come up with resources, plans, and many different goals to make this mission possible and complete. The mission dealt with satisfying...
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...What is PUBLIC BROADCASTING? Exercising of media broadcasting by the nations’ Government is broadly known as Public Broadcasting. It is financed and controlled by the public, for the public. It is neither commercial nor state-owned; it is free from political interference and pressure from commercial forces. It includes radio, television, internet and other media outlets whose primary mission is Public Service. In broadcasting, public service includes the social welfare of people, spreading information, speaking to and engaging as a citizen. Public Broadcasting is wide ranging in its appeal, reliable, entertaining, instructive and informative, who serves only one master – Public. It strives to engage all communities through evocative broadcast programmes and outreach projects. It channelizes the information and ideas to help improve communities socially, culturally and economically. Through public service broadcasting, citizens are informed, educated and also entertained. Public service broadcasting can serve as a keystone of democracy when it is guaranteed with pluralism, programming diversity, editorial independence, appropriate funding, accountability and transparency. What are the Public broadcasting institutions in India? The Major institution for public broadcasting in India is Prasar Bharati. Prasar Bharati through All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) networks provide maximum coverage of the population and are one of the largest terrestrial networks in the world...
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...With reference to appropriate scholarship, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the news service provided to the UK population by the free-market Sun newspaper and the public service BBC. This essay is going to discuss what a free-market is, what a tabloid is, how the Sun newspaper operates, what is a public service, how the BBC operates and it will compare the advantages and disadvantages of the Sun and the BBC. A free market is a market without economic invention and regulation by government except to enforce ownership and contacts. It is the opposite of a controlled market, where the government regulates how the means of production, goods, services and labor are used, priced, or distributed. When established, the press was organized as a ‘free market’ system, in a private ownership. The theory was that this would be best for democracy and society, a “Free marketplace of ideas”. Anyone can start a newspaper. The market empowers the consumer and fosters freedom. Nowadays, only a small part of the press is concerned with public affairs. 80% of the papers are tabloids, less than 20% of the content of the popular press is “public information”. According to the dictionary a tabloid is a newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard (broadsheet) newspaper. However, in more recent years the word tabloid has become synonymous with words like gossip, scandal and ‘exclusive’. By circulation The Sun is the tenth biggest newspaper in any language in the world...
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...Television News Program Analysis COM/310 July 15th, 2014 The following paper evaluates and analyzes a news story broadcast by three different networks on January 28, 2012, that became one of the first world disasters that made me start to rethink my view of the media and their biases and responsibilities to their community. How the story was covered, presented, and ultimately how the programs affected my personal values will be discussed. The three news networks chosen for this paper are BBC, CBS, and CNN. A Costa Concordia cruise ship capsized near Giglio, Italy on January 13, 2012. Today, January 28th, divers continue to seek out missing passengers, charges are being filed against the ship’s captain, and lawsuits on behalf of passengers and crew are mounting. BBC News Network (January 28, 2012 – Giglio, Italy) According to a BBC (2012) reporter, the body of a woman has been found in the capsized ship, Costa Concordia, bringing the known death count to 12. The woman was wearing a life jacket and located on the fourth deck. Out of 4,200 people, including passengers and crew, twenty people have not been accounted for. Captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino (or Capt. Coward, as he has been dubbed by the media), is being investigated for manslaughter on the legal level and for abandoning ship on moral and ethical issues. The female body found today was located in an area near the rear of the ship designated as an evacuation meeting point. DNA will be used to identify...
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...One man dead and one seriously injured in Rotherham ‘Machete attack’. The Guardian. 15 October. BBC News (2013) Knife crime offenses fall in festive period to lowest level in 18 years. The BBC. 1 March. Sky News (2012) Knife crime funding to tackle youth violence. Off-air recording. 27 December. Mp4 Media File. Available From: http://news.sky.com/story/1030482/knife-crime-funding-to-tackle-youth-violence [Accessed on 29 October 2013]. Chapman, M.C (2013). Youth street crime due to exclusion from society. [Online]. Available from; http://knifecrime.blogspot.co.uk [Accessed on 29 October 2013]. To conduct my search on knife crime, I began looking at online resources and news stories surrounding the subject. One issue I found with this research was that even though I narrowed the search from crime, to Knife crime it was still a very broad subject to gather research on. There were news stories of knife crime all over the country. I may have been able to increase the quality of research if I had narrowed it down to knife crime in the South West for example, or knife crime in Bristol to be more specific. Another issue that arose during ‘Knife Crime’ research was the lack of academic journals and even books on the subject. The majority of resources of information were from online newspaper articles such as the BBC, of which there were bountiful supplies. Also a lot of the online news story video clips had been made unavailable to view. Quality of Research was also an issue. The...
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...Television Despite the development of the Internet, television is still one of the most important sources of information. It plays such a significant role in people’s everyday lives that it’s almost impossible to imagine how we would live if there were no TV. One can argue that for many people television is no longer the main source they get the latest news from but it is practically impossible, however, to find a family that doesn’t have a television. We certainly don’t gather around the television any more as our parents used to every evening in the 70-90s to watch a new fabulous film or discuss the latest news. There are a lot of advantages making television so popular. The main reason why so many people choose this means of getting information and entertainment is its simplicity and convenience. All you have to do is to press a button and sink comfortably into a chair. The main problem of television is that little by little we become dependent on TV. It’s lucky that more and more people are beginning to go in for sports these days. Sports usually take us a great deal of time, so we become less dependent on TV. Now let’s speak about different kinds of people working on television and qualities these people should have. It’s still quite difficult to appear on television without the following qualities: intelligence, talent, beauty, leadership qualities and energy. It’s far more interesting to listen to a football report full of energy than to “a peaceful story” a commentator...
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...MEDIA REVIEW TEMPLATE: Date of event/article published: | 16-12-2015 | Name of Source:Newspaper/news channel/writer etc | BBC iPlayer | Summary of the event: | Documentary examining the violence inflicted by men on women everyday, telling the stories of all women who died at the hands of a male partner or ex partner. The Documentary stated that on average seven women a month in Britain are killed by their male partners. Of the 164 women murdered in Britain in 2013, 86 were killed by their male partner or ex-partner. This film names all 86 women and, through interviews with families, friends and neighbours, tells the stories of seven of them in detail. The first victim spoken in detail about in the documentary is Kirsty Humphrey (aged 23), she was described as a genuine, kind and funny person by her family and friends that is until she met mark who used to hurt her physically and verbally and stole money from her to buy drugs but despite all this she was still fascinated by him even when he began to beat her. Her friends and family had started to notice marks on her but she brushed it off by saying they were play fighting or that she had burnt her hand when getting food out of the oven. Kirsty’s behaviour over this period had also started to change; she had become isolated, looked worn out and had started to become addicted to alcohol. On 4th September 2013 kirsty was murdered by Mark police found several stab wounds and bruises on kirstys body. Second victim Anne- Maire...
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