Although I am a fan of newspapers and "oldschool" news formats, I believe that digital journalism opens the door for more opportunities for journalists.
Before, you were limited to what you were able to do and who you were able to reach. Also, digital journalism makes news more instant. Now a days, with the ease of the internet stories are being posted as they are happening. Also these news websites that are reporting the stories are more interactive with the audience. While this offers a chance for people to comment on stories, and even offer corrections to the story, there are some people that critique this feature. Sometimes, the comments are inappropriate and are uneducated responses.
Digital journalism, while it has eliminated many positions at newspapers has also created new job opportunities for college students with a journalism degree. For example, companies are looking for someone who can specifially write an educational blog, or are capable of html coding. And the more familiar you are with those things as well as facebook, twitter and other social networking, the more opportunities you have.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Here Comes New News
When reading "Here Comes New News," I found some of the points made very interesting. As we all know, journalism is going through a transition and eventually will be all digital. After reading this it is important to understand the characteristics of this change, and what makes news and media.
I liked this point "thus, news is not an economic transaction but a social and cultural practice involving knowledge generation, information creation, and public distribution," because it is so true. The way that news is delivered defines a culture. Along with this point, is James Careys definition of journalism "Like the novel to which it is at every historical point connected, Journalism converts valued experience into memory and record so it will not perish… Journalism takes its name from the French word for day. It is our daybook, our collective diary, which records our common life. That which goes unrecorded goes unpreserved except in the vanishing moment of our individual lives. Here you will study the practice of journalism. Not the media. Not the news business. Not the newspaper or the magazine or the television station but the practice of journalism. There are media everywhere …there just isn’t all that much journalism. (Carey, 1996, pp. 1-2)" Journalism is an art and especially today we are focused on the economic practice of it, not on the importance of good, solid journalism.
I liked this point "thus, news is not an economic transaction but a social and cultural practice involving knowledge generation, information creation, and public distribution," because it is so true. The way that news is delivered defines a culture. Along with this point, is James Careys definition of journalism "Like the novel to which it is at every historical point connected, Journalism converts valued experience into memory and record so it will not perish… Journalism takes its name from the French word for day. It is our daybook, our collective diary, which records our common life. That which goes unrecorded goes unpreserved except in the vanishing moment of our individual lives. Here you will study the practice of journalism. Not the media. Not the news business. Not the newspaper or the magazine or the television station but the practice of journalism. There are media everywhere …there just isn’t all that much journalism. (Carey, 1996, pp. 1-2)" Journalism is an art and especially today we are focused on the economic practice of it, not on the importance of good, solid journalism.
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