media trends and training in sri lanka
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Sanjana Hattotuwa
Senior Researcher, Centre for Policy AlternativesAshoka News and Knowledge Entrepreneur
Context Opportunities Challenges
HELP WANTEDImmediateOpening!
Sri Lankan newspapers seek individuals who can rescue print media from impending irrelevance. Qualified
applicants must possess new media skills and understand web technologies. Getting people to pay for online
content will be added bonus.
Must be able to work from home, on the road and at office. Mobile phone essential.
Persons resistant to change need not apply.
Context
ECONOMICS TODAY
• Not a happy time. Global recession + local fiscal mismanagement + media repression = fragmented, cash strapped markets
• Cover prices and subscriptions do not cover costs of content production
• Advertisers have a de facto control over print and electronic media
• Readers of alternative press are not purchasers. Same problem with new media!
• Lack of advertising increases costs, decreases market share, volume, distribution and impact
Context
• Montage may have to shut down. Spectrum will struggle without GoSL ads.
• Sunday Leader recently had the worst ad revenues in 13 years
• Morning Leader shut down, never profitable
• Without GoSL ads, any publication finds it hard to survive. GoSL ads only go to State media.
• Vicious cycle of financial crisis
ECONOMICS TODAYContext
Challenges
FOES OF FOEChallenges
SCENARIOS
• War heightens / risk increases / FOE decreases
• Violence continues / print & electronic suffer / web media stronger
• War ends / FOE increases / media freedom flourishes
• Irrespective of war trajectory, web media grows wider and deeper, including diaspora content production
• Terrorism slow burn / status quo continues
• Journalists leave Sri Lanka / continue to write
CONVERGENCE | QUAD PLAY
TV
Internet
Telephony
Wireless
Challenges
CONVERGENCE CREATES CENSORS
• Tamilnet.com blocked since June 2007
• Teleconferencing disallowed on Suntel
• SMS blocked on independence day / Dialog blocks JNW
• Mobile telephony regularly shut off in embattled areas
• Telcos complying with unwritten MoD diktats?
Challenges
Opportunities
6 DRIVING FORCES
1.Increasing media consumption
2.Fragmentation
3.Participation
4.Personalisation
5.New revenue models (?)
6.Broadband availability
Generational
BusinessTechnology
FUTURE TRENDS
• New Media and Citizen Journalism will merge with MSM
• Consumers will become producers
• Citizen will become witnesses who report
• Audiences will fragment, broadcast and distribution will be redefined
• MSM on the web will become places not static products.
• News will be a conversation - reported and then responded to.
• Mobiles will be ubiquitous and everyone will be addressable
Opportunities
GLOBAL TRENDS
WHERE WILL REVENUE COME FROM?
Accenture, 2007
Monetising user generated content
CONTENT CONSUMPTION
Accenture, 2007
YOUTUBE.COM
• 5 billion video streams watched by 91 million viewers in September ’08
• Average duration 2.9 minutes
• 44% of online video on Google / YouTube
• Average of 55 videos a month per user
• In July ’08, Americans watched 11.4 billion videos, a total Source: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2444
PRINT OR ONLINE?
Accenture, 2007
Moving away from print and terrestrial to online media
PRINT IN ASIA
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100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Asia Europe North America
Source: Time Magazine, 2 March 2009
PRINT VS ONLINE IN SRI LANKA
PRINT VS ONLINE IN SRI LANKA
HOW THE WEB HAS CHANGED THE MEDIA
INDUSTRY
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DEMOTIX
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FACEBOOK FOR STRONGER SOCIAL NETWORKING
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SRI LANKAN / DEVELOPING WORLD
TRENDS
MOBILE GROWTH IN SRI LANKA
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Mobiles (in millions)Fixed lines (in millions)
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OVERALL
• 200,000 broadband users
• Several thousand mobile broadband users
• 3 million fixed lines / 8 million mobiles / 11 million SIMs (Source: Lirneasia)
• Heavy use of SMS
• Most newspapers have websites
• Around 1,000 blogs
• Facebook groups / social networking vibrant particular in Middle East
WEB BASED CITIZEN JOURNALISM IN SRI LANKA
INFORMANTS
VERNACULAR NEW MEDIA
• Vikalpa YouTube videos watched hundreds of thousands of times (~200 from Nokia 93i, ~150 from DV)
• Short video vernacular content more popular than vernacular blogging
• CPA first with tri-lingual UNICODE website.
• 100+ Sinhala and Tamil blogs on Kottu, out of over 300 in just the past two years.
IS SLPI TEACHING ITS STUDENTS TO LEVERAGE
WEB 2.0 AND NEW MEDIA?
MOBILE / SMS NEWS
1,000 SMS messagesRs. 8,053 via http://www.intellisms.co.uk
Rs. 1,000 on Dialog
IMPACT OF NEW MEDIA: LONG TERM
• Emphasis on communicative rights: citizens have a right to produce and access a wide and diverse range of information and views that inform them on the main issues of the day.
• Information treated as a public good
• Freedom of expression not simply the media’s right to publish / produce but the ability and rights to participate in the discussions
IMPACT OF NEW MEDIA: LONG TERM (LONG TAIL)
• Hyper-local, topic specific media now possible
• Niche content attracts consumers over time
• Niche content archives become valuable over time
• E.g. paddy cultivation best practices in Mahaweli C Sector, surf conditions in Arugam Bay, garment sector worker’s mobile blog
GROUNDVIEWS VS. THE ISLAND
EVOLUTION OF MEDIA ETHICS
• Groundviews vs. The Island (PCC useless in 2007) but Editor asks for reprint permission in 2009
• The Sri Lankan blogosphere vs. Lakbima (emergence of a strong new media collective)
• MSM journalists will need to recognise blogs are legitimate sources of information - attributing them correctly
• Media trust models will need to develop to determine bias of crowdsourced journalism
HOW WILL YOU RESPOND
• How will you shape the institution to deal with these trends - political and technological?
• How will you shape the training to address the development in media?
THANK YOU
sanjana@cpalanka.org
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