New Journalism

The arrival of new media has significantly and drastically transformed the concept of journalism. Traditional journalism promotes authenticity, reliable sourcing and valid evidence through major media companies and the use of gate-keeping. This classic process is what provides factual information to their following about current world issues which also creates a trust with their audience. Citizen journalism is a new form of journalism that allows the general public to publish online. Citizen journalists

Yellow Journalism and Fake News Throughout history, we have seen several instances of war and peace. These issues are all delivered to us as the common population by means of reports and news. This is the lens that has shaped the way that we see the world and the aspects of the world that have to do with war in our society. We as a community are shaped by the media that we encounter. This is important to note because in an age when media is a part of nearly everything that we do in our day-to-day

All over the world, the news play an important role in the daily lives of everybody. If not exchanging information on the current issues, then there is the recap of what has transpired. This thus is the critical role played by the news industry collectively known as journalism. All over the world, the media has played a great role in making sure that the masses are up to date with what is happening. All the stakeholders work day and night to ensure the same. Various aspects come into play though

The use of “fake news” has been rapidly increasing over the past several years, as politics have been the forefront of discussion. Millions of Americans use Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to view current news updates which can be considered a “recipe for disaster”. Retrieving the credibility of information on social media is progressively more difficult due to the increase of news sources. In addition, news has been turned into a parody for several imitators of “journalists”,

In the first article called “Nonprofit news: The future of American Journalism?” is written by Michael McGrath, a Journalist and the author of 15 articles, who is also an editor of The Kilkenny Journal, the problem of the future of journalism has been discussed. The author starts with an example of one reporter, who worked for Denver’s paper “Rocky Mountain News” and who predicted its short life The name of this reporter is Laura Frank. She noticed, that the publishing house has too few people

New Journalism New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and '70s, which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. It is characterized by a subjective perspective, a literary style reminiscent of long-form non-fiction and emphasizing "truth" over "facts," and intensive reportage in which reporters immersed themselves in the stories as they reported and wrote them. (Wikipedia, 2016) New Journalism was developed between the 1960’s and 70’s. Although

Breaking News: Journalism is Still Alive Words can be powerful and heavy and most of all complicated. On the other hand, dictionaries cut everything short. The Merriam-Webster definition of journalism, for example, is especially simple and direct—the job of collecting, writing, and editing news stories for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio. This definition fails to recognize though that just because something is written and published in a newspaper or on a news site does not mean that

person can be objective because we have biases and a variety of conflicts that we bring to our jobs. Mitchell Stephens, author of Beyond News: The Future of Journalism offers an argument against objectivity. Stephens states that objectivity is impossible because as much as one may try to disappear from the work, there is a kind of meditation that takes place in journalism no matter what, (117). By selecting who to interview or which side of a complex political dispute to air, journalists are evaluating

Is New Journalism a literary genre? Analyse with reference to the literary techniques used in two examples of New Journalism. Word Count - 2231 I suppose the most common sense point at which to start is by defining New Journalism, or Literary Journalism, as Eisenhuth and McDonald (2007, p. 38) say it is called at the “upper end of the spectrum.” The Collins Concise Dictionary (1999, p. 995) defines New Journalism as “a style of journalism, using techniques borrowed from fiction to portray

INTRODUCTION The new media announces a new period of media development in the world over, it is the one that preaches the significance of new communications technologies. The new media is not just a kind of information technology but also part and parcel of the social being of man in this modern society. At the threshold of this fairly new millennium (2000 A.D.), there was a sporadic turn-around in the existing branches of the global media. This catapulted the world into a new information order