A Brief Note On Journalism And Its Effects On Journalism

Technological and media revolutions have freed journalistic duties to anyone with access to the Internet. Citizens can now practice their own news judgment. The emphasis can no loner be on who is a journalist but rather how journalism is performed. Thus, journalists have an even more important task of delivering the truth. Williams believes that journalists should be god-fearing, but fails to mention other values journalists should have.

Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.

The purpose of this report is to analyse journalism practices employed in newspaper reporting across different outlets and to analyse if the practice was in line with the media

“Journalism is an art and at times it's a science.” Goldman-Hall said. This source of information takes a lot of practice and observation, a route that online writers aren't willing to take on.

The case is important because it belongs in a very new category of journalism. Online journalism, which has been established with vast technological advancements, poses many different advantages and disadvantages

Journalism, like many other industries, is going through significant changes because of technology. This is why conventions like NASH 79 are important for young journalists to attend in order to gain a stronger understanding of integrating these changes in their work. Below I have outlined my potential learning outcomes and reasons for wanting to attend the NASH 79 conference.

It was through this course that I realized that journalism was in fact alive and well, it was changing with the technology and the times, and now more than ever it matters. Journalism matters because of the journalist’s duty to the public. In many ways democracy depends on journalist. It is the journalists who inform the public on the “political environment,” report on the “actions and decisions of elected officials,”

Before the rise of the New Media Age or Digital revolution our sources for news and current events came from print media. Technology has revolutionized the world of journalism yet previous medias such as print, have produced a multitude of exaggerated stories. In Billy Rays’ early film Shattered Glass, the events surrounding pre-digital age journalism is perfectly shown throughout the film.

The newspaper industry is undergoing a radical change in three primary areas caused by technology. First, the underlying two-sided business model is changing. With the Advent of internet, news content is easily and freely available from various sources but lacks quality journalism and credibility. Revenues from online advertising are not large enough to compensate for decline in revenues from print advertising & subscription. Newspaper industry is experiencing new realm of new content delivery and in process of understanding and establishing sustainable sources and

This research has been conducted due to the fact that some researchers have claimed that “journalism is dying” whilst others have argued that “journalism is not dying but is simply evolving” (Blatchford: 2014). This has been a much contested debate triggered by the decline of news circulation from traditional news sources i.e. newspapers, television and radio together with the technological advances of the internet and social media (Cub Reporters: 2010). This has raised many questions and firstly, this dissertation will assess whether the rise of social media has led to the decline of news circulation from traditional news sources. Secondly, this paper will look at what the advantages and disadvantages of using social media as a news distributor are for professional journalists and the general public. Lastly, this study aims to investigate

Moreover, writers must create engaging articles as readers are bombarded with competing news stories from a variety of sources, on a daily basis. Therefore, capturing readers’ attention is only the beginning of the intended goal for writers. The next important step is keeping readers engaged by ensuring there are no grammatical errors; writing in a simple language; satisfying the reader by answering questions; and, by striving to be objective. In the end, a writers’ task is to incorporate the four essential elements of effective and appropriate media writing within the writing process.

To make sure that the newspaper readers and e-newsletter viewers have the correct news, newspaper companies have reporters, journalists, managing editors, executive editors in order to provide the news without mistakes. (Bureau of Labour Statistics, 2014-2015) The method of gathering information is also used in broadcast media to produce drama and videos in new media. Television programmes and videos also need to take many editing for the final product.

While investigative journalism used to be associated with lone reporters working on their own with little, if any, support from their news organizations, recent examples attest that teamwork is fundamental. Differing kinds of expertise are needed to produce well-documented and comprehensive stories. Reporters, editors, legal specialists, statistical analysts, librarians, and news researchers are needed to collaborate on investigations. Knowledge of public information access laws is crucial to find what information is potentially available under "freedom of information" laws, and what legal problems might arise when damaging information is published. New technologies are extremely valuable to find facts and to make reporters familiar with the complexities of any given story. Thanks to the computerization of government records and the availability of extraordinary amounts of information online, computer-assisted reporting (CAR)

The overview of the subject matter is that the big worry is that quality will decline Journalists are employed to check their facts and they get checked in turn by editors who question the reliability of their sources; we trust the paper’s brand not the individual journalist. Social media could be reliable, but how would we know? This is equally true then it comes to bias. But the fact of the matter is journalism is more credible and if we lose credibility in the information we get everything could fall for speculation. The authors’ thesis is we should not stand for the decline of journalism as a profession but support our right to have valuable information

To wholly have a grasp on how this new founded approach to journalism has changed alongside technology—as well as understanding the dangers such openness brings forth—one has to understand what exactly those changes are. Primarily, those that are writing for the sake of offering information have, whether willingly or not, fed into the usage of social media as it has become a centralized method of distribution that is relatively inescapable with the current times. As such those framing the news for the masses find an authentic avenue to stay in contact via social media that has benefits ranging from, “its extraordinary newsgathering potential; its potential as a new tool to engage the audience; and as a way of distributing our news” (Eltringham, 2012), all of which are deeply different from the presentation of reporting that occurred during earlier eras. Days of strongly structured instances of journalism that could not travel with such speed have been replaced as, “social media has trashed many of the foundations on