Main story:
Anne, 21 a young journalst
She feels that Black Britons need their own media.
But they don't tune to their own media.
They don't think the programmes are good. Also they are not happy that the mainstream media.
Arron, 20 a journalistic student
He feels that Black Britons need their own media.
Many of his friends don't watch ethnic media.
He chooses to work in black press after graduation.
Do Black Britons need their media?
When a generation of Black British Media...
When now...
discussion:
Black British Media: at a crossroad
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
reading intro
Traditional black British audiences, characterised by an immigrant experience in the 1950s and 60s, have raised second and third generations of Africans and Caribbeans in Britain.
These children grow along with BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and many other platforms of national press. But some of them have rarely known their parents’ countries.
Although there was a great need of Black British Media here back in 1980s, when black people are stereotypically labeled “crime, violence”, is there still a need for this specific ethnic media today?
The black community becomes more diverse, any media that can’t keep up with that will die. Challenges and difficulties will emerge more than they used to do.
What is the role of black British media in a diverse society today? How do they survive as a niche player?
These children grow along with BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and many other platforms of national press. But some of them have rarely known their parents’ countries.
Although there was a great need of Black British Media here back in 1980s, when black people are stereotypically labeled “crime, violence”, is there still a need for this specific ethnic media today?
The black community becomes more diverse, any media that can’t keep up with that will die. Challenges and difficulties will emerge more than they used to do.
What is the role of black British media in a diverse society today? How do they survive as a niche player?
notes for my scrip
the black ‘community’ is increasingly diverse and any publication that can’t keep up with that will die. Simple. That doesn’t show there’s no desire just that you need the right product.
The guardian is one of the only papers in the uk which has a number of black voices and even then that number is TINY
The guardian is one of the only papers in the uk which has a number of black voices and even then that number is TINY
we need our own media
The role of the black media is actually to broaden the media and make it more inclusive by presenting voices, perspectives and stories that often go untold and unheard.
In fact, media that does not have space for the perspectives of other groups is what’s actually divisive, exclusive and problematic. I also see black media as a space for non-black people to learn and understand more about what’s going on in black culture
I am not sure whether there is someone who believes that the mainstream perspective is THE right and only perspective, that how a dominant group of people views the world is how it is. And it’s precisely for that reason that black media exists and is needed.
Differences aren’t a problem to me, it’s how we view differences that’s the problem. The world is full of people with different experiences and perspectives, and to have their own ethinic media should reflect that.
In fact, media that does not have space for the perspectives of other groups is what’s actually divisive, exclusive and problematic. I also see black media as a space for non-black people to learn and understand more about what’s going on in black culture
I am not sure whether there is someone who believes that the mainstream perspective is THE right and only perspective, that how a dominant group of people views the world is how it is. And it’s precisely for that reason that black media exists and is needed.
Differences aren’t a problem to me, it’s how we view differences that’s the problem. The world is full of people with different experiences and perspectives, and to have their own ethinic media should reflect that.
Monday, 12 July 2010
My draft of anotherf scenario
Story behind:
Why do you establish colourful radio?
Why do you establish colourtelly?
Why do you establish the voice?
-what do they do?
-what do they offer?
why do black britons need their own media?
-street vox pop
-founder
-professor
-several years ago we have a story about black doll and white doll
do you think we need or not?
-self-hatred
-the voice
is there a solution?
Asked at that time.
Now
But, when the mainstream media begin to offer their audience (colourful radio/ the voice..)
Now comes the question: do black Britons still need their own media?
-do you think we need?
-why/why not
-do you know some? Do you watch or read?
Now we have colourtelly, colourful radio and the voice etc.
We need: why?
Because the mainstream media covers only…
They deliver an image of…
Not to have ethnic programmes in the mainstream because it is only an ideal thing but…(colourful radio, the voice)
So keep and bring more.
Future:
Discuss: in which way to survive and cater for people
Why do you establish colourful radio?
Why do you establish colourtelly?
Why do you establish the voice?
-what do they do?
-what do they offer?
why do black britons need their own media?
-street vox pop
-founder
-professor
-several years ago we have a story about black doll and white doll
do you think we need or not?
-self-hatred
-the voice
is there a solution?
Asked at that time.
Now
But, when the mainstream media begin to offer their audience (colourful radio/ the voice..)
Now comes the question: do black Britons still need their own media?
-do you think we need?
-why/why not
-do you know some? Do you watch or read?
Now we have colourtelly, colourful radio and the voice etc.
We need: why?
Because the mainstream media covers only…
They deliver an image of…
Not to have ethnic programmes in the mainstream because it is only an ideal thing but…(colourful radio, the voice)
So keep and bring more.
Future:
Discuss: in which way to survive and cater for people
My draft of one scenario
black doll and white doll
black briton's new generation are to lose their identity...
they are educated by mainstream media which cater for white britons...
you could have a british accent but do not lose your root
but it did not catch the mainstream media's attention
to offer more stories for ethnic people here
they tend to axe more...ironically
so we do need ethnic media to tell our stories for our community and our next generation,don't we?
when asked do black britons need their own media
let's think about
why we need or why we don't need
black briton's new generation are to lose their identity...
they are educated by mainstream media which cater for white britons...
you could have a british accent but do not lose your root
but it did not catch the mainstream media's attention
to offer more stories for ethnic people here
they tend to axe more...ironically
so we do need ethnic media to tell our stories for our community and our next generation,don't we?
when asked do black britons need their own media
let's think about
why we need or why we don't need
The video for my final project
Just wrap one of my video, a trailer for colourful radio.
I am really enjoying this. Four days play back and forth the footage did not disappoint me.
Conclusion: I am a creative person so there is no possibility for me to work for any organisation.
I will become a freelance!
:)
I am really enjoying this. Four days play back and forth the footage did not disappoint me.
Conclusion: I am a creative person so there is no possibility for me to work for any organisation.
I will become a freelance!
:)
Sunday, 11 July 2010
diary for my final project(2)
My story becomes much clearer after more than five times watching my footage of all interviews.
Every interview lasts no more than 40mins. I cut them into pieces to frame a story. During the process, I always got lost. I played the video back and forth only to find their footage have to be "formatted".
Although I have carefully prepared my questions, the interviewees would not follow my questions all the time. Sometimes they would turn my question to a way they like. Obviously I am not the kind of journalists who chase the interviewees without caring their feelings. For me I understand it is important to get the story but still I believe my interviewee is a human being and I have to put his feeling into priority. I will never ask the same silly question that a journalist asked a child "what is your feeling when you know you lost your parents during the earthquake".
After two weeks in a row doing the interviews from Brixton in south London to Tottam Hatch Lane in North London, I did not feel any relief. I know that more work are there waiting for me.
I did the story about black British Media. I think more about Chinese Media here, though.
Black Britons have established many platforms to express themselves, produce programmes for their community. Chinese community here has not yet established any TV station or radio station. I know there is a language difficulty. Maybe black Britons suffered too much before achieving their stage. I don't imply any racial issue when I say this. As ethnic minority in Britain, I can not stop thinking to create my own media. When I was in China, I was the majority. I interned for national media and the government.
I have no idea on minority.
I cannot say I have it yet.
The more I know, the quieter I am. I choose to listen and see more. The mistakes the Black British Media made, the challenges they are facing, the success they achieved...I walked back the road they have already walked through by listening to their stories and talking with them.
There is no simple English sentence to conclude it. In Chinese I would say "yi yan nan jin".
Last two weeks, I spent day and night-I wish the library open 24 hours-thinking my story, my video and my articles. I have been enjoying doing this. It is like I live another life by creating a story. I have no pains in doing this.
Creative things take time. I do not mind if I could finally get my degree or not because I do what I want to do. For myself not for the sake of my tutor or a degree certificate-that is just a piece of paper, isn't it?
My friends reminded me that I had not kept in touch with them as often as I did. My cousin complained that I did not call back home for a long time. Also I know that it has been even longer that I wrote my article. I devote myself to many things for the last half year.
But I feel there is no ending for work. No ending for improvement in terms of work and study. It is a matter of choice that which one I want.
What is the point of life?
Today I say that it is to realise my value.
And I am following this now.
My website basic design is done and thank you, Deming.
My story has a clue.
I will have another two weeks to polish it.
And looking forwards to, my dream.
Every interview lasts no more than 40mins. I cut them into pieces to frame a story. During the process, I always got lost. I played the video back and forth only to find their footage have to be "formatted".
Although I have carefully prepared my questions, the interviewees would not follow my questions all the time. Sometimes they would turn my question to a way they like. Obviously I am not the kind of journalists who chase the interviewees without caring their feelings. For me I understand it is important to get the story but still I believe my interviewee is a human being and I have to put his feeling into priority. I will never ask the same silly question that a journalist asked a child "what is your feeling when you know you lost your parents during the earthquake".
After two weeks in a row doing the interviews from Brixton in south London to Tottam Hatch Lane in North London, I did not feel any relief. I know that more work are there waiting for me.
I did the story about black British Media. I think more about Chinese Media here, though.
Black Britons have established many platforms to express themselves, produce programmes for their community. Chinese community here has not yet established any TV station or radio station. I know there is a language difficulty. Maybe black Britons suffered too much before achieving their stage. I don't imply any racial issue when I say this. As ethnic minority in Britain, I can not stop thinking to create my own media. When I was in China, I was the majority. I interned for national media and the government.
I have no idea on minority.
I cannot say I have it yet.
The more I know, the quieter I am. I choose to listen and see more. The mistakes the Black British Media made, the challenges they are facing, the success they achieved...I walked back the road they have already walked through by listening to their stories and talking with them.
There is no simple English sentence to conclude it. In Chinese I would say "yi yan nan jin".
Last two weeks, I spent day and night-I wish the library open 24 hours-thinking my story, my video and my articles. I have been enjoying doing this. It is like I live another life by creating a story. I have no pains in doing this.
Creative things take time. I do not mind if I could finally get my degree or not because I do what I want to do. For myself not for the sake of my tutor or a degree certificate-that is just a piece of paper, isn't it?
My friends reminded me that I had not kept in touch with them as often as I did. My cousin complained that I did not call back home for a long time. Also I know that it has been even longer that I wrote my article. I devote myself to many things for the last half year.
But I feel there is no ending for work. No ending for improvement in terms of work and study. It is a matter of choice that which one I want.
What is the point of life?
Today I say that it is to realise my value.
And I am following this now.
My website basic design is done and thank you, Deming.
My story has a clue.
I will have another two weeks to polish it.
And looking forwards to, my dream.
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Do we still need black British media?
Su Chang looks at whether the black British media is still relevant.
What is the role then of black British media in a diverse society today? Traditional black audiences, characterised by an immigrant experience in the 1950s and 60s, have raised second and third generations of Africans and Caribbeans in Britain who have rarely known their parents’ country and the issue for black British media is staying relevant to them.
‘I don’t think we need our own black British media,’ stresses Anne, pointing out that media should not have a colour to it.
Dotun Adebayo, no I don’t think we need….if…’’
But sometimes, yes, because we need a media to tell culture.
Aaron: if we don’t present us positively who will?
Steve: understand the culture
Dotun:why black people make a lot of noise
Henry: BBC don’t offer intellectual black presenter a job because they are not the stereotype that they expected from black Britons.
Steve: they don’t run it well even axe many
Henry:they don’t trailer ethnic programmes well
Despite a black presence in the UK dating back centuries, the question of integration continues to trouble the black population: where does it stand in contemporary Britain?
White doll and black doll trailer
Black people are over represented in the prison population. Research from the Department for Education and Skills shows that only a third of boys from black Caribbean and black other backgrounds achieved five or more A*-C grades at GCSE (and equivalent) in 2005, compared to 50% of white British boys. Black pupils are three times more likely to be excluded from school than their white peers. Working black Caribbean women are 8 percentage points more likely to have a degree than white women. Yet only 9% of Black Caribbean women are managers/senior managers, compared to 11% of white women, according to research from the Equal Opportunities Commission. All of this suggests that the black population is on the outside of British society looking in.
When asked if there is a need for black media, many people agree that they need. But when asked what black media they know and how often they pay attention to it, the answer turns to another way.
Vox pop answers.
For black editors, it is important that they highlight cultural differences, not only by the existence of a black media, but also by its content. But how to attract their readers and audience are challenging.
Anne: magazine for black woman’s make up; family…
Arron: no
Dele: I read news from internet but not from …
Dotun: daughter no
Born after the Brixton riots when black British people expressed rage at social exclusion and treatment at the hands of the police, The Voice, Britain’s leading black newspaper, ran front page stories about the boy…
It also dropped its slogan ‘Britain’s best black newspaper’ from its masthead to widen its readership to other ethnic minorities, raise its advertising prospects, and increase circulation.
steve‘The challenge is to redefine black media, “because
Henry, Britain is changing, especially the black community,’
The future of the voice: circulation declines suffering from their success,says Steve Pope, editor of news at The Voice.
The voice became a little bit old. We are To develop on line.
The paper’s historical mission was to express an African-Caribbean perspective on issues as its communities
Black newspapers are suffering a major decline in circulation after peaking in the 1990s. The impact of black-run satellite and cable television such as BEN TV and OBE has been limited and there has been a shift towards more niche offerings based on the internet.
Aaron and Dele: good idea to have an internet TV station
A key issue facing black British editorial and commercial management is persuading advertisers to spend money with them and target a distinctive audience.
Henry: advertising attraction not public funding because we want to be more preneur.
More of the black media is turning to the internet to publish content and reach disparate groups, but attracting sufficient advertising to remain commercially viable is still the ultimate challenge.
But it is hard to prove our circulation and persuade the ad.
Henry: we have …audience…
Henry,‘News gathering is very expensive. We take news from the sky.’
Dele:‘I am from Africa… There are two ways of living, animal and human being. Yes some people don’t care but as a human being, we have to think, to remind ourself that some of the problems that we have today are because we have lost our culture. If there’s no culture, we’re lost as a people. Strength comes from culture, but that doesn’t mean that culture needs to conflict with other cultures. There is no reason why people can’t live side by side. I’m thinking what if we all black hair, yellow face…’
Henry Bonsu, co-founder of Colourful Radio, a speech-led radio station on the internet, says that there is still a role for black British media because it can deliver accurate representation of black concerns. ‘If we are still to be relevant, we need to have a strong agenda and be distinctive from the mainstream which has more power,’ he says.
Mainstream media companies, which had previously ignored black people, pose serious competition for the black British media because of the growing interest in ethnic minority audiences, as staff and as consumers.
“I believe the mainstream media can never “represent” us,‘Their workforce may become more diverse; they may become better at reflecting black life in its diversity, but their role in catering for everyone will mean they can never be a substitute for having a black media.’
What is the role then of black British media in a diverse society today? Traditional black audiences, characterised by an immigrant experience in the 1950s and 60s, have raised second and third generations of Africans and Caribbeans in Britain who have rarely known their parents’ country and the issue for black British media is staying relevant to them.
‘I don’t think we need our own black British media,’ stresses Anne, pointing out that media should not have a colour to it.
Dotun Adebayo, no I don’t think we need….if…’’
But sometimes, yes, because we need a media to tell culture.
Aaron: if we don’t present us positively who will?
Steve: understand the culture
Dotun:why black people make a lot of noise
Henry: BBC don’t offer intellectual black presenter a job because they are not the stereotype that they expected from black Britons.
Steve: they don’t run it well even axe many
Henry:they don’t trailer ethnic programmes well
Despite a black presence in the UK dating back centuries, the question of integration continues to trouble the black population: where does it stand in contemporary Britain?
White doll and black doll trailer
Black people are over represented in the prison population. Research from the Department for Education and Skills shows that only a third of boys from black Caribbean and black other backgrounds achieved five or more A*-C grades at GCSE (and equivalent) in 2005, compared to 50% of white British boys. Black pupils are three times more likely to be excluded from school than their white peers. Working black Caribbean women are 8 percentage points more likely to have a degree than white women. Yet only 9% of Black Caribbean women are managers/senior managers, compared to 11% of white women, according to research from the Equal Opportunities Commission. All of this suggests that the black population is on the outside of British society looking in.
When asked if there is a need for black media, many people agree that they need. But when asked what black media they know and how often they pay attention to it, the answer turns to another way.
Vox pop answers.
For black editors, it is important that they highlight cultural differences, not only by the existence of a black media, but also by its content. But how to attract their readers and audience are challenging.
Anne: magazine for black woman’s make up; family…
Arron: no
Dele: I read news from internet but not from …
Dotun: daughter no
Born after the Brixton riots when black British people expressed rage at social exclusion and treatment at the hands of the police, The Voice, Britain’s leading black newspaper, ran front page stories about the boy…
It also dropped its slogan ‘Britain’s best black newspaper’ from its masthead to widen its readership to other ethnic minorities, raise its advertising prospects, and increase circulation.
steve‘The challenge is to redefine black media, “because
Henry, Britain is changing, especially the black community,’
The future of the voice: circulation declines suffering from their success,says Steve Pope, editor of news at The Voice.
The voice became a little bit old. We are To develop on line.
The paper’s historical mission was to express an African-Caribbean perspective on issues as its communities
Black newspapers are suffering a major decline in circulation after peaking in the 1990s. The impact of black-run satellite and cable television such as BEN TV and OBE has been limited and there has been a shift towards more niche offerings based on the internet.
Aaron and Dele: good idea to have an internet TV station
A key issue facing black British editorial and commercial management is persuading advertisers to spend money with them and target a distinctive audience.
Henry: advertising attraction not public funding because we want to be more preneur.
More of the black media is turning to the internet to publish content and reach disparate groups, but attracting sufficient advertising to remain commercially viable is still the ultimate challenge.
But it is hard to prove our circulation and persuade the ad.
Henry: we have …audience…
Henry,‘News gathering is very expensive. We take news from the sky.’
Dele:‘I am from Africa… There are two ways of living, animal and human being. Yes some people don’t care but as a human being, we have to think, to remind ourself that some of the problems that we have today are because we have lost our culture. If there’s no culture, we’re lost as a people. Strength comes from culture, but that doesn’t mean that culture needs to conflict with other cultures. There is no reason why people can’t live side by side. I’m thinking what if we all black hair, yellow face…’
Henry Bonsu, co-founder of Colourful Radio, a speech-led radio station on the internet, says that there is still a role for black British media because it can deliver accurate representation of black concerns. ‘If we are still to be relevant, we need to have a strong agenda and be distinctive from the mainstream which has more power,’ he says.
Mainstream media companies, which had previously ignored black people, pose serious competition for the black British media because of the growing interest in ethnic minority audiences, as staff and as consumers.
“I believe the mainstream media can never “represent” us,‘Their workforce may become more diverse; they may become better at reflecting black life in its diversity, but their role in catering for everyone will mean they can never be a substitute for having a black media.’
Monday, 5 July 2010
diary for my final project
May 4th Group meeting
choose the topic Media bias
unclear about my story
12th talk with Hugo
14th talk with Xinxin
21th talk with Michael
29th talk with Wesley
May 11th Group meeting
May 18th
May 25th
June 1st Not happy with
call David to
June 8th
call David
June 15th change the topic into Do we need our own media
18th
Intro:
I am a Chinese. I have been in UK for nine months but I have worked in an internet Black community TV station for six months.
what is the first black British internet TV station like?
Selling part is Why is a Chinese journalist working for black community TV station? What is this station like? Why do black people want to have a TV station? How does this station survive?
My story:
I am a Chinese journalist, 24 year old, come to London October 2010.
I was born in China where black people are rarely seen.
To be honest, I am a little bit afraid if a tall and strong black stranger stands in front of me.
I am not sure where my idea on black people are from. Maybe the image comes from American Hollywood Movies. Black people are always associated with violence, crimes, anger. The decent people are all white guys.
Also there is another kind of black people's image. They live in a place where I never have a chance to visit. They are away from modern society. They lack food, water but they are peaceful people. They do not work hard because the weather is too hot to work.
Some questions which are in my mind:
What is 'black media'?
Is there still a need for 'black media'?
How does Colourtelly differ from other more established and better funded broadcasters?
Where is the 'black British' audience today?
How does it get its news?
How do you define the news of 'black interest' - what is the criteria?
Are other more established medias unbiased in their coverage... How do they cover 'black-interest news' if at all....
Can a non-black journalist (i.e. Chinese cover black-interest news)
is 'black-interest' by its very definition biased
June 22nd
call Denisa
talk with classmates from choices of
niche market of colourtelly tv station
Do Black Britons need their own media
23rd
'Colourtelly.tv', The Guardian
Monday, July 02, 2007 Send to a friend Send to a friend
'We don't see ourselves represented on screen at all'. Britain's first general interest black internet TV station launches later this month. Founder Dotun Adebayo talks to James Silver
Dotun Adebayo is in the middle of "doing the season". And he is not referring to the one involving horse-loving debutantes in pearls called Sophie. "There's an unofficial black season too, you know," explains the broadcaster and publisher.
"Just like the season of events in the white, upper-middle-class world, which begins with Ascot, or whatever, and ends with the Proms, black people have a similar thing throughout the summer. It starts with the Afro Hair & Beauty show at Alexandra Palace in the last weekend of May and it ends with Black History Month in October, with huge events like [the Notting Hill] carnival in between."
But rather than nibbling on canapés and circulating, glass-in-hand, at such events, Adebayo and his wife, the singer Carroll Thompson, have been hard at work, frantically dishing out DVDs to promote their new venture www.colourtelly.tv, Britain's first-ever general interest black internet TV station. "July is the perfect time to be launching," he says. "We gave out 2,000 sample DVDs of the channel at the Afro Hair and Beauty show and at carnival, I hope we'll give out 20,000 more. We'll continue doing the same thing right through till October, until everyone gets to hear about us."
By under-serving or neglecting minority viewers altogether, says Adebayo, the mainstream broadcasters have left a yawning gap in the market. "The black audience pays its licence fee, but we don't really see ourselves - or stars from our community - represented on screen at all. I was watching TV last night, on several different channels, and I promise you, apart from people passing by in the street, you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of black faces your saw."
And that's where colourtelly.tv comes in, he continues. "There's nothing remotely like it out there. Yes, there are a few other black TV stations based in Britain - but they tend to be Nigerian TV stations or the obligatory black-interest music stations. Colourtelly.tv will be a very different proposition. We'll be making our own drama, our own talkshows, kids' and history programmes, all aimed at a black British audience.
"I've tapped into a whole stream of black actors. Everyone in the black community knows names like Victor Romero Evans and Patrick Robinson, who was on Casualty, but when was the last time you saw them on TV? The same goes for scriptwriters and presenters. I'm getting inundated. I spoke to the editor of a prominent black newspaper and told him about my plans and he said 'Can I have my own talkshow?' And I said, 'Of course. If Piers Morgan gets his own TV show, you should too.'"
The channel will also broadcast a daily soap opera ("a black EastEnders"), Babyfather, based on a series of books by Patrick Augustus, which were published by Adebayo's company the X Press. "The X Press put out more than 200 books by first-time authors, including [first black British bestseller] Yardie and Cop Killer," he says. "We sold the rights to a couple of them - we made about £100,000 selling the rights to Yardie, although it has never been produced, and the first Babyfather was made by the BBC - but the rest are just sitting there. We've got this whole resource about the experience of the black community in Britain which we can now turn into drama for the channel."
Born in Nigeria in 1960, Adebayo came to Britain five years later. He studied literature at the University of Stockholm and philosophy at Essex University, before going on to become a music journalist for publications including NME, Melody Maker, Time Out and Echoes. From 1987-1991 he was music editor at the Voice and a columnist on Pride magazine and the New Nation. Today, he combines presenting on Radio Five Live and BBC London with guest slots on BBC2's The Culture Show and Newsnight Review.
No one can accuse Adebayo and Thompson of not putting their money where their mouths are with their new project. Loans have been taken out. Credit cards have been "maxed out". The family home has been turned into a studio set. Equipment including Sony PD150 cameras and a Panasonic vision mixer have been purchased from eBay, and while budgets are decidedly of the shoestring variety, Adebayo stresses that "everyone gets paid for their work".
The channel is subscription-only and he estimates that with 2,000 subscribers, paying £10-a-month each, it can "just about break even producing four hours of unique broadcasting per day played on a loop". However, a 10,000 subscriber base would allow the station to be on air 24 hours. "Me and my wife are risking everything with this," he admits. "We're risking our home and our future. If the black community want it, it will be there. If they don't, well ... then we'll go under."
Subject: RE: one line of my story
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:32:52 +0100
From: D.Gyimah@westminster.ac.uk
To: fannysuchang@hotmail.com
Su
Why do you do this to yourself. You spoke to me on the phone a couple of days ago about a story about Colour TV. We spoke about it. You had a personal insight into this story. It worked. You've now delivered to me a completely different story. PLease, please call your colleagues.. tell them you need help. and sit down with them for a while to understand what it is you need to do. Your peers will be able to react with you in a way that perhaps I can't; that said I don't know why you're changing the basic story AGAIN.
Remember it is one story...
Murielles is about polution - and she has five different people talking aboutr polution in London
Randa's is about sexual harrasment and she has a number of interview to tell this story
Denisa's is about a hospital and its conditions. Be aware her story is not about the conditions of hospitals in Romania - that would be too big
Junjie - I'm not sure what her story is about - and perhaps you need to talk to her - as I'm getting no response
Alberts is about the problems likely to arise from a change in legislation for a particular court system in Kenya
Patricia's is about the effect of econ tourism on individuals - NOT Gambia, that would be too big
Su Chang - by now saying you want to do "Where to go: niche internet TV station" you have set yourself the task of covering too much ground; hence the range of your questions which are way too big and broad..
David Dunkley Gyimah
-----Original Message-----
From: Chang Su [mailto:fannysuchang@hotmail.com]
Sent: Mon 6/21/2010 5:25 PM
To: David
Subject: RE: one line of my story
Hi David,
I think there will be many stories related to this topic. I chose this as my main Story:
Where to go: niche internet TV station
My documentary
Part one: internet is a trend:
newspaper has created its website version
people are addicted to blogs, twitter, facebook...
increasing number of netizens
increasing audience of youtube...
traditional TV station BBC introduced i player
internet TV stations are established
what are the internet TV stations like? What kind of program do they produce? Do they charge people who watch their program?how can they make money? how are things going so far?
one of them enters a niche market: ethnic "colourtelly TV station"
Part two :Focus on colourtelly
do we need "black media"?
a cry for black media to report themselves.
Their differences from other internet TV stations
Part three:More to think:
Do they make money?
what is their format of survival?
Where are its audience?
interview their staff
no or low payment for interns but why do they work for colourtelly
interview their guest speakerswhy do they want to contribute to this internet TV program without money?
interview its founder
Its founders: Dotun Adebayo and his wife Carroll Thompson. Both of them are famous in black community.
why did they establish this internet TV station?what are the problems so far?
Part four:what is next? How would this black internet TV station survive? How would internet TV station survive? How could we make our minority's voice heard?
Let me know whether this could be called a story.
Thank you.
Su Chang
Subject: RE: one line of my story
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:55:22 +0100
From: D.Gyimah@westminster.ac.uk
To: fannysuchang@hotmail.com
yes but you need to write it up as a blog. Su that's what i said. Please take notes in class. I can only assisst you on the evidence of work I see and writing a blog helps you because it demonstrates you have the right elements for the story. please consult with Denisa. I asked her to do the same thing
David Dunkley Gyimah
-----Original Message-----
From: Chang Su [mailto:fannysuchang@hotmail.com]
Sent: Mon 6/21/2010 1:05 PM
To: David
Subject: one line of my story
the story is
The surviving difficulties (or the state) of the Black internet TV stations in UK-discovered by a non-black journalist in black internet TV station
Subject: RE: SU Chang's final project story
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:25:41 +0100
From: D.Gyimah@westminster.ac.uk
To: fannysuchang@hotmail.com
RE: SU Chang's final project story
Su - we need the story.. what's the story
David Dunkley Gyimah
-----Original Message-----
From: Chang Su [mailto:fannysuchang@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sat 6/19/2010 5:54 PM
To: David
Subject: SU Chang's final project story
Dear David,
How are you?
It is obvious that I start my final project proposal so late and I don't want to make any excuse. But I will try my best to catch up from now on. I understand in real working atmosphere, deadline for journalists will always be like this tight rather than flexible two months long. I will treat this as a challenge, battle.
Best wishes,
Su Chang My final project: Black internet TV station's state
Why am I doing this project?1)Ethic people's voice is rarely correctly heard from UK's mainstream media (SKY, CNN, BBC). It is better to have their own media and report properly rather than criticise mainstream media. 2)Internet TV station is a new thing and could be a trend in the future.
The colourtelly TV station just combines these two elements. I would like to focus on this very one as a case to tell a story about the current state of ethic internet TV stations.
The story:
I am a Chinese journalist but work in a black-interest internet TV station. What's the internet TV stations like? What's the Black internet TV station like? How do I work with them? Then how would internet TV station survive? How could ethic minority's voice heard?
Scene 1I am a Chinese journalist, 24 year old, come to London October 2010.
I was born in China where black people are rarely seen.
To be honest, I am a little bit afraid if a tall and strong black stranger stands in front of me.
I am not sure where my idea on black people are from. Maybe the image comes from American Hollywood Movies. Black people are always associated with violence, crimes, anger. The decent people are all white guys.
Also there is another kind of black people's image. They live in a place where I never have a chance to visit. They are away from modern society. They lack food, water but they are peaceful people. They do not work hard because the weather is too hot to work.
I lack the knowledge of black people. How about you?
Scene 2: Why and How does a non-black journalist work in black internet TV station?
When I began to take part in colourfully, I did not think too much.
I feel black community, like every ethnic community, needs to be treated well. Racial problems always go to the black community while although Chinese people also suffer from being minority, but not with serious racial problems.
When I contributed to BBC 5 Live, I was asked why your Chinese people were so quiet.
I answered, that's our culture.
At the same time I realised it was not we Chinese people would like to be quiet; it was because mainstream media did not pay attention to our Chinese people.
The same happens to black community. Or the media exaggerate their negative images such as high rate of crime, being rude.
The result is devastating: when black people go to the bank, they hardly get the mortgage comparing with white people. when black students are at school, teachers tend to assume them as poor-performed students. If there is a crime associate with ethic people, the crime is easily labeled wit "black on black crime".
And black people are definitely not the only ethic people who suffer from this bias.
Since I study journalism, I could sense the inappropriate reports on black community.
So I decided to see a real black people on my own.
Scene 3: How would this black internet TV station survive? How would internet TV station survive? How could we make our minority's voice heard?
Colourtelly is the first black interest internet TV station in the UK.
By under-serving or neglecting minority viewers altogether, the mainstream broadcasters have left a yawning gap in the market.
"The black audience pays its licence fee, but we don't really see ourselves - or stars from our community - represented on screen at all. I was watching TV last night, on several different channels, and I promise you, apart from people passing by in the street, you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of black faces your saw." one interviewee said to me.
There's nothing remotely like it out there. Yes, there are a few other black TV stations based in Britain - but they tend to be Nigerian TV stations or the obligatory black-interest music stations. Colourtelly.tv will be a very different proposition. We'll be making our own drama, our own talkshows, kids' and history programmes, all aimed at a black British audience.
But when I entered the real working atmosphere of colourfully, I should say that I can not accuse the founder, Dotun Adebayo and his wife Thompson, of not putting their money where their mouths are with their new project. I should say that I respect him because as far as I know, he and his wife are risking everything with this. They're risking our home and our future.
How can they survive, in this capital society? Who really cares about black community or your programmes? Even black people may not know your station. How do you make money?
If the station continues to burn money, in a way of producing programmes every week but hardly get its audience, I am not optimistic to its future. This internet TV station relies too much on Dotun's financial support and his fame in media. How does a non-black journalist work in black internet TV station?
June 26th
Interview Dele Ogun
29th
talk with classmates
July
4th
5th
6th
July 13th
choose the topic Media bias
unclear about my story
12th talk with Hugo
14th talk with Xinxin
21th talk with Michael
29th talk with Wesley
May 11th Group meeting
May 18th
May 25th
June 1st Not happy with
call David to
June 8th
call David
June 15th change the topic into Do we need our own media
18th
Intro:
I am a Chinese. I have been in UK for nine months but I have worked in an internet Black community TV station for six months.
what is the first black British internet TV station like?
Selling part is Why is a Chinese journalist working for black community TV station? What is this station like? Why do black people want to have a TV station? How does this station survive?
My story:
I am a Chinese journalist, 24 year old, come to London October 2010.
I was born in China where black people are rarely seen.
To be honest, I am a little bit afraid if a tall and strong black stranger stands in front of me.
I am not sure where my idea on black people are from. Maybe the image comes from American Hollywood Movies. Black people are always associated with violence, crimes, anger. The decent people are all white guys.
Also there is another kind of black people's image. They live in a place where I never have a chance to visit. They are away from modern society. They lack food, water but they are peaceful people. They do not work hard because the weather is too hot to work.
Some questions which are in my mind:
What is 'black media'?
Is there still a need for 'black media'?
How does Colourtelly differ from other more established and better funded broadcasters?
Where is the 'black British' audience today?
How does it get its news?
How do you define the news of 'black interest' - what is the criteria?
Are other more established medias unbiased in their coverage... How do they cover 'black-interest news' if at all....
Can a non-black journalist (i.e. Chinese cover black-interest news)
is 'black-interest' by its very definition biased
June 22nd
call Denisa
talk with classmates from choices of
niche market of colourtelly tv station
Do Black Britons need their own media
23rd
'Colourtelly.tv', The Guardian
Monday, July 02, 2007 Send to a friend Send to a friend
'We don't see ourselves represented on screen at all'. Britain's first general interest black internet TV station launches later this month. Founder Dotun Adebayo talks to James Silver
Dotun Adebayo is in the middle of "doing the season". And he is not referring to the one involving horse-loving debutantes in pearls called Sophie. "There's an unofficial black season too, you know," explains the broadcaster and publisher.
"Just like the season of events in the white, upper-middle-class world, which begins with Ascot, or whatever, and ends with the Proms, black people have a similar thing throughout the summer. It starts with the Afro Hair & Beauty show at Alexandra Palace in the last weekend of May and it ends with Black History Month in October, with huge events like [the Notting Hill] carnival in between."
But rather than nibbling on canapés and circulating, glass-in-hand, at such events, Adebayo and his wife, the singer Carroll Thompson, have been hard at work, frantically dishing out DVDs to promote their new venture www.colourtelly.tv, Britain's first-ever general interest black internet TV station. "July is the perfect time to be launching," he says. "We gave out 2,000 sample DVDs of the channel at the Afro Hair and Beauty show and at carnival, I hope we'll give out 20,000 more. We'll continue doing the same thing right through till October, until everyone gets to hear about us."
By under-serving or neglecting minority viewers altogether, says Adebayo, the mainstream broadcasters have left a yawning gap in the market. "The black audience pays its licence fee, but we don't really see ourselves - or stars from our community - represented on screen at all. I was watching TV last night, on several different channels, and I promise you, apart from people passing by in the street, you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of black faces your saw."
And that's where colourtelly.tv comes in, he continues. "There's nothing remotely like it out there. Yes, there are a few other black TV stations based in Britain - but they tend to be Nigerian TV stations or the obligatory black-interest music stations. Colourtelly.tv will be a very different proposition. We'll be making our own drama, our own talkshows, kids' and history programmes, all aimed at a black British audience.
"I've tapped into a whole stream of black actors. Everyone in the black community knows names like Victor Romero Evans and Patrick Robinson, who was on Casualty, but when was the last time you saw them on TV? The same goes for scriptwriters and presenters. I'm getting inundated. I spoke to the editor of a prominent black newspaper and told him about my plans and he said 'Can I have my own talkshow?' And I said, 'Of course. If Piers Morgan gets his own TV show, you should too.'"
The channel will also broadcast a daily soap opera ("a black EastEnders"), Babyfather, based on a series of books by Patrick Augustus, which were published by Adebayo's company the X Press. "The X Press put out more than 200 books by first-time authors, including [first black British bestseller] Yardie and Cop Killer," he says. "We sold the rights to a couple of them - we made about £100,000 selling the rights to Yardie, although it has never been produced, and the first Babyfather was made by the BBC - but the rest are just sitting there. We've got this whole resource about the experience of the black community in Britain which we can now turn into drama for the channel."
Born in Nigeria in 1960, Adebayo came to Britain five years later. He studied literature at the University of Stockholm and philosophy at Essex University, before going on to become a music journalist for publications including NME, Melody Maker, Time Out and Echoes. From 1987-1991 he was music editor at the Voice and a columnist on Pride magazine and the New Nation. Today, he combines presenting on Radio Five Live and BBC London with guest slots on BBC2's The Culture Show and Newsnight Review.
No one can accuse Adebayo and Thompson of not putting their money where their mouths are with their new project. Loans have been taken out. Credit cards have been "maxed out". The family home has been turned into a studio set. Equipment including Sony PD150 cameras and a Panasonic vision mixer have been purchased from eBay, and while budgets are decidedly of the shoestring variety, Adebayo stresses that "everyone gets paid for their work".
The channel is subscription-only and he estimates that with 2,000 subscribers, paying £10-a-month each, it can "just about break even producing four hours of unique broadcasting per day played on a loop". However, a 10,000 subscriber base would allow the station to be on air 24 hours. "Me and my wife are risking everything with this," he admits. "We're risking our home and our future. If the black community want it, it will be there. If they don't, well ... then we'll go under."
Subject: RE: one line of my story
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:32:52 +0100
From: D.Gyimah@westminster.ac.uk
To: fannysuchang@hotmail.com
Su
Why do you do this to yourself. You spoke to me on the phone a couple of days ago about a story about Colour TV. We spoke about it. You had a personal insight into this story. It worked. You've now delivered to me a completely different story. PLease, please call your colleagues.. tell them you need help. and sit down with them for a while to understand what it is you need to do. Your peers will be able to react with you in a way that perhaps I can't; that said I don't know why you're changing the basic story AGAIN.
Remember it is one story...
Murielles is about polution - and she has five different people talking aboutr polution in London
Randa's is about sexual harrasment and she has a number of interview to tell this story
Denisa's is about a hospital and its conditions. Be aware her story is not about the conditions of hospitals in Romania - that would be too big
Junjie - I'm not sure what her story is about - and perhaps you need to talk to her - as I'm getting no response
Alberts is about the problems likely to arise from a change in legislation for a particular court system in Kenya
Patricia's is about the effect of econ tourism on individuals - NOT Gambia, that would be too big
Su Chang - by now saying you want to do "Where to go: niche internet TV station" you have set yourself the task of covering too much ground; hence the range of your questions which are way too big and broad..
David Dunkley Gyimah
-----Original Message-----
From: Chang Su [mailto:fannysuchang@hotmail.com]
Sent: Mon 6/21/2010 5:25 PM
To: David
Subject: RE: one line of my story
Hi David,
I think there will be many stories related to this topic. I chose this as my main Story:
Where to go: niche internet TV station
My documentary
Part one: internet is a trend:
newspaper has created its website version
people are addicted to blogs, twitter, facebook...
increasing number of netizens
increasing audience of youtube...
traditional TV station BBC introduced i player
internet TV stations are established
what are the internet TV stations like? What kind of program do they produce? Do they charge people who watch their program?how can they make money? how are things going so far?
one of them enters a niche market: ethnic "colourtelly TV station"
Part two :Focus on colourtelly
do we need "black media"?
a cry for black media to report themselves.
Their differences from other internet TV stations
Part three:More to think:
Do they make money?
what is their format of survival?
Where are its audience?
interview their staff
no or low payment for interns but why do they work for colourtelly
interview their guest speakerswhy do they want to contribute to this internet TV program without money?
interview its founder
Its founders: Dotun Adebayo and his wife Carroll Thompson. Both of them are famous in black community.
why did they establish this internet TV station?what are the problems so far?
Part four:what is next? How would this black internet TV station survive? How would internet TV station survive? How could we make our minority's voice heard?
Let me know whether this could be called a story.
Thank you.
Su Chang
Subject: RE: one line of my story
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:55:22 +0100
From: D.Gyimah@westminster.ac.uk
To: fannysuchang@hotmail.com
yes but you need to write it up as a blog. Su that's what i said. Please take notes in class. I can only assisst you on the evidence of work I see and writing a blog helps you because it demonstrates you have the right elements for the story. please consult with Denisa. I asked her to do the same thing
David Dunkley Gyimah
-----Original Message-----
From: Chang Su [mailto:fannysuchang@hotmail.com]
Sent: Mon 6/21/2010 1:05 PM
To: David
Subject: one line of my story
the story is
The surviving difficulties (or the state) of the Black internet TV stations in UK-discovered by a non-black journalist in black internet TV station
Subject: RE: SU Chang's final project story
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:25:41 +0100
From: D.Gyimah@westminster.ac.uk
To: fannysuchang@hotmail.com
RE: SU Chang's final project story
Su - we need the story.. what's the story
David Dunkley Gyimah
-----Original Message-----
From: Chang Su [mailto:fannysuchang@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sat 6/19/2010 5:54 PM
To: David
Subject: SU Chang's final project story
Dear David,
How are you?
It is obvious that I start my final project proposal so late and I don't want to make any excuse. But I will try my best to catch up from now on. I understand in real working atmosphere, deadline for journalists will always be like this tight rather than flexible two months long. I will treat this as a challenge, battle.
Best wishes,
Su Chang My final project: Black internet TV station's state
Why am I doing this project?1)Ethic people's voice is rarely correctly heard from UK's mainstream media (SKY, CNN, BBC). It is better to have their own media and report properly rather than criticise mainstream media. 2)Internet TV station is a new thing and could be a trend in the future.
The colourtelly TV station just combines these two elements. I would like to focus on this very one as a case to tell a story about the current state of ethic internet TV stations.
The story:
I am a Chinese journalist but work in a black-interest internet TV station. What's the internet TV stations like? What's the Black internet TV station like? How do I work with them? Then how would internet TV station survive? How could ethic minority's voice heard?
Scene 1I am a Chinese journalist, 24 year old, come to London October 2010.
I was born in China where black people are rarely seen.
To be honest, I am a little bit afraid if a tall and strong black stranger stands in front of me.
I am not sure where my idea on black people are from. Maybe the image comes from American Hollywood Movies. Black people are always associated with violence, crimes, anger. The decent people are all white guys.
Also there is another kind of black people's image. They live in a place where I never have a chance to visit. They are away from modern society. They lack food, water but they are peaceful people. They do not work hard because the weather is too hot to work.
I lack the knowledge of black people. How about you?
Scene 2: Why and How does a non-black journalist work in black internet TV station?
When I began to take part in colourfully, I did not think too much.
I feel black community, like every ethnic community, needs to be treated well. Racial problems always go to the black community while although Chinese people also suffer from being minority, but not with serious racial problems.
When I contributed to BBC 5 Live, I was asked why your Chinese people were so quiet.
I answered, that's our culture.
At the same time I realised it was not we Chinese people would like to be quiet; it was because mainstream media did not pay attention to our Chinese people.
The same happens to black community. Or the media exaggerate their negative images such as high rate of crime, being rude.
The result is devastating: when black people go to the bank, they hardly get the mortgage comparing with white people. when black students are at school, teachers tend to assume them as poor-performed students. If there is a crime associate with ethic people, the crime is easily labeled wit "black on black crime".
And black people are definitely not the only ethic people who suffer from this bias.
Since I study journalism, I could sense the inappropriate reports on black community.
So I decided to see a real black people on my own.
Scene 3: How would this black internet TV station survive? How would internet TV station survive? How could we make our minority's voice heard?
Colourtelly is the first black interest internet TV station in the UK.
By under-serving or neglecting minority viewers altogether, the mainstream broadcasters have left a yawning gap in the market.
"The black audience pays its licence fee, but we don't really see ourselves - or stars from our community - represented on screen at all. I was watching TV last night, on several different channels, and I promise you, apart from people passing by in the street, you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of black faces your saw." one interviewee said to me.
There's nothing remotely like it out there. Yes, there are a few other black TV stations based in Britain - but they tend to be Nigerian TV stations or the obligatory black-interest music stations. Colourtelly.tv will be a very different proposition. We'll be making our own drama, our own talkshows, kids' and history programmes, all aimed at a black British audience.
But when I entered the real working atmosphere of colourfully, I should say that I can not accuse the founder, Dotun Adebayo and his wife Thompson, of not putting their money where their mouths are with their new project. I should say that I respect him because as far as I know, he and his wife are risking everything with this. They're risking our home and our future.
How can they survive, in this capital society? Who really cares about black community or your programmes? Even black people may not know your station. How do you make money?
If the station continues to burn money, in a way of producing programmes every week but hardly get its audience, I am not optimistic to its future. This internet TV station relies too much on Dotun's financial support and his fame in media. How does a non-black journalist work in black internet TV station?
June 26th
Interview Dele Ogun
29th
talk with classmates
July
4th
5th
6th
July 13th
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