Research sources table log: Pay wall on online journalism

 

Activities	Sources found	How found?	How useful/reliable
Assignment was set. Topic decided on and discussed. List of sub-questions created. Initial web searches- secondary research – Wikipedia…etc	http://www.wallblog. co.uk/2010/07/14/no- one-is-subscribing-to- the-times-paywall- says-source/   http://www.guardian. co.uk/media/greensl ade/2010/sep/24/pa ywalls-magazines http://www.guardian. co.uk/media/greensl ade/2010/sep/23/pa ywalls- wallstreetjournal http://www.wallblog. co.uk/2010/08/10/tim   es-paywall-is-a- foolish-experiment-  that-wont-last-says- wikiepdia-founder/ http://www.bbc.co.u k/blogs/thereporters/ rorycellanjones/2010/ 07/the_times_paywal  l_hit_or_miss.html   http://www.bbc.co.u k/blogs/thereporters/r orycellanjones/2010/ 07/the_times_paywall _hit_or_miss.html http://www.beehivec ity.com/newspapers/ graphs-that-tell-you -nothing-about-the- times-paywall-   prospects/ http://www.beehivec ity.com/news papers/times -paywall- more- analysis-of- the- data191807   http://paidcontent.c o.uk/article/419-why -raising-the-pay-wall- may-be-an- impossible-dream/	Search on  journalism.co.uk and Googled the topic – lots of sources found. Searched topic in main newspapers.	The sources at the top are all blogs and articles so are subject to bias. All sources here are recent but data is not necessarily bang up to date as they are mostly written when the initial introduction of a pay wall came in so don’t have longer term information The 2 articles here is reliable as it is from the BBC which as a public service broadcaster cannot be bias or untrue so is very reliable. Use cited sources from trusted and known information site but article is very bias. NOT USEFUL Out of date.
Plan break down of research topic	www.alexa.com www.nmauk.co.uk	Research blog recommendations	These are known and reliable data collecting sites for quantitative information.
Look on inute.ac.uk Researched academic documents on the research topic	http://inute.ac.uk   NOT USEFUL http://www.gold.ac.u   k/media-research-centre Led to finding Bob Franklin ‘Introduction to journalism’ book extract on the future of journalism & the pay wall. www.informaworld.c   om/smpp/section?content=a924149106&fu lltext=713240928#references	Dead end. Numerous searches returned useless results. Went on the goldsmiths site and looked at their media research then looked for papers professors had written online.	All links on these sites are preapproved and academically viable if relevant. Very reliable as it is used for academic purposes and written by qualified academics.
Looked at books.	Found very little in  books and library search as even new books are out of date with the very recent paywall changes. Looking through books I looked at New Media publications, and Democracy in Journalism.  They were not of use.	Library & in class.	NOT USEFUL
Looked for even more up to date sources following the rise of the News of the World pay wall	http://www.beehivec ity.com/ (http://www.beehive city.com/newspaper s/times-paywall-more -analysis-of-the- data191807/)	Searched on beehive city for articles.	Beehive City was founded by three former Times journalists in January 2010. Free of any corporate link to any of Britain’s major media companies, it is now the number one independent media news site in the UK. It includes a number of cited sources and independent analysis and opinion.