A Brief Note On The Post Industrial Journalism

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.

Maria Popova, writer for Wired UK, brought attention to the transition in journalism as a result of technological advances by posing the following question to critically acclaimed reporters and academics in an article entitled, “The Big Question: New media's effect on Journalism”, “In the next decade, what new media platform will most affect journalism and self-expression?” (2010).

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

In the article by Tom Engelhardt, an author tells about journalism during his childhood and how is it different from now. When his was young, New York had 10 major papers like The Daily News, The Daily Mirror, The Herald Tribune and a few magazines: Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Look and etc. Then he thought, that this is the golden era of journalism. All of these papers run the world, people got news from it and it was hard to imagine life without it. But what do we have now? Thousands of papers and magazines appear in our lives. We have a chose what to read today. But these papers are still just papers. We read someone's ideas and thoughts. The main bursting happened when we god online sources, «With the rise of the Internet, we're no

Throughout Wallace’s career in the news industry, he has witnessed the extent of the numerous changes brought about by media and technology. One example is the increasing unpredictability of careers in this field.

The history of journalism in the United States has spanned from the first colonist crossing the Atlantic Ocean to today’s mass media. Even before we were a country we had printers and journalists writing and printing stories for the people. Looking back, we can divide journalism history into different time periods and see how news reporting developed over time. Some of these time periods include the Colonial Period which spanned from when the first Pilgrims came to America in the mid 1600’s till the 1760’s. Other periods include the Revolution period which picked up from the colonial period till the early 1780’s. The period of Westward Expansion lasted from the 1800 to the 1830’s, then there was the Civil War Period which spanned from the 1840’s till the 1860’s. Finally, the Interpretative Period which lasted from 1930’s and continues to today. Looking back at these time periods we can see what was considered “news” and what was “newsworthy”, the dominate issues of the periods, and how far we have come as a society from those issues.

Arguing that modern journalism is merging with the entertainment and online realms, James Fallows, in “Learning to Love the New Media,” compares and contrasts today’s modern press with the media of years past. The media’s role, Fallows believes, has always been to inform the public of information without sole concern for profit; however, due to industry deregulation and the advent of the Internet, journalists are increasingly writing stories targeted for public desire rather than for civic service. According to some, this shift in journalistic intention is causing American news to present fewer viable solutions to real-world problems and has ultimately made it less objective. Fallows, considering the past, highlights how historical

According to James Fallows article, “Learning to Love the (Shallow, Decisive, Unreliable) New Media,” officials all over the world continue to bewail the new ways of journalistic exertion; however, diminishing the old media could possibly be more beneficial than what the world expected.

David Hesmondhalgh claims that, “as the media came to dominate symbol-making in the twentieth century, more and more people have aspired to work in the supposed glamour of the cultural industries” (2013, 83). While creative work and symbolic creation may be “glamorous” for some, Hesmondhalgh reminds us that a greater percentage of individuals wanting to work professionally in the cultural industries have failed in comparison to those who have succeeded (2013, 83). That being said, prior to embarking on a career in the lucrative cultural industries, it is important to research the conditions shaping work in the complex professional era. This essay will analyze the positive and negative aspects of working as a digital journalist to demonstrate how workplace flexibility, stress, precarious labor, limited creativity autonomy, and future job insecurity are defining factors of work for journalists. As

There have been some controversies among the citizens of the United States as we enter the technological age and throw away some of our old stuff. One of these old things are newspapers. In today’s age, someone’s stance on newspapers may be completely different than someone else’s. Someone who grew up around newspapers may say they are completely relevant and need to be protected. Rather than, someone who grew up around the decline of newspapers may say that they are only killing the trees and mean nothing anymore; they are useless.

A third claim is that while economic and political factors establish the broad context for press performance, it is journalistic norms and practices historically emerging out of a particular national journalistic field that directly shape news content and form. As Bourdieu insists, a field is a “microcosm with its own laws ... [which is to say] that what happens in it cannot be understood by looking only at external factors.” A field’s “rules of the game” are established when the field is founded, and once “routinized” tend to persist over

This change significantly alters who the journalists work for. The journalists' “primary commitment is to the public” (Kovach and Rosenstiel 73), however, the public itself has greatly changed. Public standards for journalism are at an all time high and they require journalists to be the “people's surrogate, covering society's waterfront in the public interest” (Kovach and Rosenstiel 96). Technology can help with this expectation but, especially in today's day and age, it can also lead to outside factors such as the possibility for more profit to influence one's loyalty to the citizens. Donald Trump has garnered a lot of attention with his remarks. Many journalists have been asked by their supervisor to cover what he says as it is “good for publicity”(Voorhees 3). It is frustrating to see that news channels are abusing technology and exploiting the audience's trust in order to sway the audience towards a certain ideal. Some have forgotten that the purpose of journalism is to allow citizens to 'self-govern'. Without the journalists' loyalty to the citizens, there would not even be a bridge and audiences would be left to figure out daily occurrences on their

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

TV Journalism has been degraded to the point in which true factual and informative reporting free of bias has been replaced with short news bytes centered and focused on its entertainment value alone. Within the political process, this has mostly served as a disservice to both politicians and the general public audience.

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