The word “Journalism” refers to the activity or profession of writing for newspapers or magazines or of broadcasting news on radio or television. However, today Journalism also includes the activity of writing and broadcasting news on the internet too but it’s not necessarily done by a professional creditable journalist.
Traditional Journalism has central authority, is knowledge centric and is similar to a lecture concept like one-to-many in black and white prints. Bold prints, different font sizes, column sizes for a particular new and pictures that draws extra attention to some news and its more objective to have accurate information in Journalism.
However, in the current era of the digital age Internet portrays news differently than traditional journalism, almost all news are available with a headline and the text are standardized for internet viewers, also creating an interaction between the readers about the news becoming a social connecting platform, it’s a many-to-many concept and relationship centric. Moreover, it encourages transparency in Journalism.
Traditional Journalism has central authority, is knowledge centric and is similar to a lecture concept like one-to-many in black and white prints. Bold prints, different font sizes, column sizes for a particular new and pictures that draws extra attention to some news and its more objective to have accurate information in Journalism.
However, in the current era of the digital age Internet portrays news differently than traditional journalism, almost all news are available with a headline and the text are standardized for internet viewers, also creating an interaction between the readers about the news becoming a social connecting platform, it’s a many-to-many concept and relationship centric. Moreover, it encourages transparency in Journalism.
Since it’s so convenient to access the news on the internet most people are selective with the news they want to read. Which can have good and bad sides as all the news online would reach all the readers the way it was suppose to, and since transparency is encouraged on the internet journalism, people’s comments about the news can change how the news in being perceived.
The Internet will definitely give the opportunity for anyone to be a journalist which might be an issue for reliability of the news. While it also gives readers not only black and white pictures and text but also videos, and allows Journalism to be an interactive platform, convenient and easier to retrieve old news anywhere or anytime. Journalism is still revolving with the technology while trying to keep up to the basic values of traditional Journalism while saving cost and ink. Though internet gives on-the-spot coverage, it will definitely not be as creditable, analytic and in-depth as traditional Journalism, as internet news can be in many forms such as status on Facebook, blog postings, tweets or also in a formal news webpage.
Many journalists say that they are scared about the future of Journalism as Internet is changing the credibility and standards of Journalism. But I personally feel that even if Journalism evolves with the internet to be more interactive,transparent and instantly available to readers, as long as the basic principles of Journalism and ethics of Journalism are maintained in the internet Journalism will still be able to have quality news and still survive as a creditable profession.
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