Basics Journalism

Without the experience a professional journalist inherits, online bloggers don't write up to their full potential which can result in bad journalistic techniques and negative criticism from traditional Journalists, such as

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

comparable in many ways. Both jobs involve writing  and collecting information so it can be

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.

The internet is our modern source for news media; the importance of the newspaper has not only declined, it is in a sense, obsolete. We now turn to the internet for opinions, news, and entertainment. Even though the way in which we consume information (PBS) has changed, the importance of an unrestricted and watchful media has not changed. (Magleby, Light, & Nemacheck, 2010)

With all of the new platforms of media, our world is evolving faster than ever. New technology allows us to have fast and easy access to breaking news. The challenging task for journalists

Autonomy is not merely a preference, but a fundamental and enduring requirement of professional journalism. However, as Jane Singer demonstrates in ‘Contested Autonomy: Professional and Popular Claims on Journalistic Norms’, a new, somewhat overlooked, voice has emerged to challenge journalistic autonomy: bloggers. For the purpose of this discussion the term blogger denotes those who cover similar topics to mainstream journalists. The volume, prominence, and fluidity of online blogging threatens to fundamentally restructure journalism, placing the sustainability of conventional journalistic practices under intense doubt. The internet is significantly more collaborative and participatory than engrained journalistic structures account for. As Singer explains, “the boundaries between journalists and their audiences have blurred”, so “journalists no longer have much control over what citizens will see, read or hear.” This allows audiences “to create meaning which is explicitly resistant to the meaning created by news organisations.” Basically, this is a question of whether or not journalists can still exercise autonomy over their message’s meaning, if they cannot even control who is receiving it, the context in which it is being received, or how it’s being interpreted?

After researching the issue and the future of the journalism field it becomes apparent that, as privately owned businesses, most publications have the primary goal of making a profit, and subsequently produce the content that people desire to achieve this goal. With the exception of government-owned publications like the ABC, news outlets have no ethical responsibility to produce the hard news content that the audience ‘need’ to know, as they are businesses with an objective of producing a profitable source of entertainment for their specific target audience. Despite the different media diets of each individual consumer, media executives have the technology to understand and therefore satisfy the desires of their target audience. Thus concluding that while publications may not satisfy the supposed needs of their readers, they are able to recognize what they want to consume and produce this to retain their following and therefore achieve their primary goal of making a

Ground-breaking news such as the shooting in Tunisia or the President conducting a deal with Iran should be prioritized and be put in a place where the average citizen can immediately read about it. As technology dominates our lives, shocking news generally reaches the public in a very fast manner, mostly through social media. Journalists must be able to take what he/she thinks is the most important, interpret it to make it understandable and put it out to the public. In my opinion, this principle is the most important as the ability of the journalist to deliver easy to understand news is what will allow the bridge to form. If this bridge is formed correctly, citizens will be better able to understand their relationship to the event. In addition, news websites themselves must be able to accommodate the needs of the society by putting 'important' news at the front, and not allowing celebrity drama and more 'unnecessary' news to dominate their website. After all, it is extremely frustrating when the most important news of the day is about The Kardashians' latest shenanigans rather than how

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

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.

In fact, the digitisation is one of the main motivations behind the the transformation of journalism, including news values, professional ethics, newsroom administration and working environment. The Mapping digital media research indicates that the digital media not only changed the news expression in developed countries, but also influenced the way journalists worked in emerging markets. Digital media brings opportunities as well as risks and challenges to the news.

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