News Of The 21st Century : The Evolution Of Necessity

In an era of global technology, instant news, infomercials, electronic town meetings, and “Made for TV Documentaries,” the borderlines between news and analysis, news and entertainment, news and fiction are constantly shifting.

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 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

If there is one thing I believe in is that journalism, specifically broadcast journalism, helped greatly in the advancement of communications technologies and vice versa. With the introduction of radio and television, the hunger for more information and accessing the information quicker grew tremendously. Maybe not the best time in terms of world peace, but with the drive to spread the information out as fast and as widely as possible, it did help drive for a better further, a more peaceful future where people received the information first hand and from many different angles. Even with these technological advancements, it was not always a positive impact on the journalism front, and I will analyze the pros and cons in this paper.

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?

With time, there has been a complete change in the news that newspapers and televisions present. For example, news coverage has now become much

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.

Wholesome, useful, and interesting websites and blogs have formed that are completely legitimate. New and revolutionary outlets such as the hyperlocal news industry would not have been possible had the internet not allowed for such changes in how the news is portrayed to the reader occur (Tornoe 26-27). Well cited and researched sites are not the problem; the problem is the less scholarly blogs and stories that many read. Joseph Rago with the Wall Street Journal and many others believe that “‘The technology of ink on paper is highly advanced and has over centuries accumulated a major institutional culture that screens editorially for originality, expertise and seriousness’” (“Online”). Many issues come about when the Internet is used to portray an individual’s opinions and

Throughout the ages there has always been to some extent some form of journalism. From World War I with the use of radio and poster, to the more recent Iraq war where were we used more outlets including the Internet. Though the means of acquiring this information can sometimes come at a cost. To what extent should journalist go to obtain the needed information to write such articles and to report on events? Some say that journalist may get in the way or they may place themselves at risk of injury or death. However, such reporting can cause people, on which it’s targeting, to sway in a particular direction. It is by this reporting that journalist combined with media can be a strong political tool to gain favor by guiding the information to support their agenda.

A new era of technology has arisen rapidly during the seventeen years already past in the twenty-first century, and with it brings a generation of new, young families. Now, unlike anything the world had ever seen in past decades, people around the world are more connected than ever before and there exist so many new stimuli which pepper our brains on a daily basis; social media. Particularly in the United States, a cultural shift within the careers of Journalism and News Providing had occurred alongside the boom in the tech industry because of the versatility it boasts when delivering. Out of the many stimulus we experience, the news is one all just cannot ignore for now it exists everywhere on the World Wide Web, to our favorite social media

Despite the decline of the newspaper industry, USA Today has found the ways of differentiating and staying away from the commodity status of most news sources. It means that USA Today put their readers’ interests above the financial benefits. First, the paper's focus will now be on its digital operations. Furthermore, it will emphasize breaking news on its Website, aiming to post articles within 30 minutes of a breaking news event. It will create a stand-alone sports segment called USA Today Sports. Additionally, it will shift more of its resources toward making content more available in digital form, an effort to win a larger share of the tablet and mobile phone news market (Peters, 2010). Second, they deliver the innovative content that is

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

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