Because I am a journalism student, I have talked, researched and discussed with many of my fellow students and faculty members about the topics above. I am choosing to talk about this because I think it is important and they are pertinent issues in the journalism field. I am also very interested in this topic, so I thought it would be fun to take the opportunity you gave us to design our own multi-part question and write about something in journalism that is appealing to me.
I recently read an article somewhere, in which BBC journalist Sigrun Rottman said that objectivity in journalism is an illusion and the media should think more of being balanced than being objective. According to her, objectivity in the media does not really exist. This hit home for me because before being a journalism student I believed that objectivity in journalism was undoubtedly the focal point of the profession and that the business of every journalist was to be objective. The truth and the reality of this belief as we know it and as I have come to understand is that objectivity in journalism really doesn’t exist or to put it in better terms, it doesn’t exist to the extent that we perceive it should. So, the oft-stated and exceedingly desired goal of modern journalism is objectivity - the ‘disconnected’ gathering and dissemination of news and information; this allows people to arrive at decisions about the world and events occurring in it without the journalist’s subjective views influencing the acceptance and/or rejection of the information. It’s a pity that such a goal is impossible to achieve! As long as humans gather and disseminate news and information, objectivity is an unrealizable dream.
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...hat will help you build your journalistic toolkit. I have talked a lot about social media in several of journalism classes and have learned a lot about it, so I thought it would be fun to inject my thoughts behind it in relation to how journalists’ can and should use it for their benefit.
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The “marketplace of ideas” would become a significant part of journalism and is still present and in effect today. One might argue that the “marketplace of ideas” has run amuck. As technology continues to advance we are witness to the ever-changing adaption made to journalism and its techniques. No longer is the schooled journalist, or the wealthy publisher the only ones to report our d...
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Over the last 20 years the Internet has become a prime source for media people turn to for convenience. We have entered a culture that demands information and news instantly and constantly all day, all week and all year round. The invention and rise of handsets, social media, News apps and online newspapers have pushed broadcast journalism to the brink, forcing the industry into a state of struggle whereby it must deliver successful ideas to stay in the loop. By discussing how future broadcast journalists can either establish new ideas or incorporate new technology into their work, it can be established that this industry isn’t dying. The traditions of broadcast journalism are in a state of redevelopment to keep up with the technologically advanced society in which we now live, and sustain reliable, truthful information everyone is entitled to.
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Every day journalists face the stereotype of being ruthless, untrustworthy, and down right wrong. However, what people don't realize is that in the beginning this was not the case and even in today's society journalists are making a solid effort to fight that stereotype that so many bad journalists have left. One of the ways that journalists are trying to fight back is through instituting the nine elements of journalism: journalism's first obligation is to the truth, its first loyalty is to citizens, its essence is a discipline of verification, its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover, it must serve as an independent monitor of power, it must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise, its must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant, it must keep the news comprehensive and proportional, and its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience. These elements are to be used in relation to any piece of journalism. Therefore, as I look at Suskind's "A Hope in the Unseen" I will evaluate his use or lack of use of these nine elements.
I am a student of PR, advertising and media. I really enjoyed being a student of Media Events and News Cultures module this year. I have had a good grasp of knowledge in journalism and media as well as how its aspects connect with public relations studies. I have learned about media events, news events, churnalism, digital story telling, citizen journalism, role of photography in journalism and so on. However, the topics that interested me the most were citizen journalism and content curation. I think it perfectly shows how journalism profession roles have changed with the high technology development in 21st century. In this essay, I am going to critically reflect on issues from the
In trying to attract new audiences, news media have begun to transition from reporting to becoming a form of entertainment. With the meteoric rise of social media’s role as a news source, the fight for an increase of diversity in the media, and the ever-growing desire of immediate content, the future of responsible journalism is more important than ever. Ask yourself, why do I think the way I do? Where do my political views originate? How do I prove them? Most likely, it is due to the biased portrayal of issues in the media and the politicization that accompanies what we consume. Now, compare your views to your preferred news reporting entity. More than likely, they are the same.
A prominent notion discussed by scholars is gate-watching, a concept that is considered to replace traditional gatekeeping in journalism. The establishment of the gatekeeping theory can be attributed to White who researched the ‘reasons given by a newspaper editor for discarding possible news issues’ (White 1950). However, the emergence of web 2.0 has rendered such studies irrelevant, when considering the increased blurring of roles between journalists and an audience. Scholars are now suggesting that a new concept, termed gate-watching, will ‘replace traditional gatekeeping journalistic roles’ (Shoemaker et al 2001). Bearing in mind the previous limited space of conventional media, gatekeeping ‘refers to the important role of journalists to select whether or not to admit a particular news story to pass through the gates of a news medium into the news channel’ (McQuail 1994, p. 213). However, the unlimited space offered by the internet, which allows for the active participation of the audience, makes Shoemakers discussion more useful in contemporary studies. Bruns, bringing together ideas from previous works by Shoemaker and Wrigley, identifies that the ‘collaborative participation of users in news selection’ (Bruns 2006), is a distinguishing feature of gate-watching, and reflects the changing role of journalists.
The journalist’s role has been altered to one in which they no longer limit what information is available, but instead direct the audience toward vetted information that the journalist considers credible (Bruns, 2003). Failures within journalism are part of the reason for the industry’s loss in influence; as media companies failed to update their products in time to adjust to an Internet and convergence-driven environment on the web (Bruns, 2008). There is no reason that journalists cannot have a sizable role within media ecosystem based on sharing content, yet for this to succeed journalists must show the public the value of their experience and education (Bruns, 2011). The idea of gatewatching connects to the nature of the web where people link to both references they used to produce material and other content they believe to be relevant or interesting (Bruns & Highfield, 2015). Gatekeeping represents method of selecting information for the audience
Journalism is the collection and sharing of information about ongoing events to a mass group of people (Bainbridge et al., 2011). Its core principle is to provide information as well as the truth to the public. Reported news serves a role in the society as they inform the public of relevant information on events that happens. Good journalism entails various factors that align with the interest of the public. In this essay, I will show different elements of what constitutes ‘good quality’ journalism and its role in the society. Firstly, journalist use news values as a tool to gauge what issues are relevant and would be in the public’s interest. Secondly, agenda setting and framing of stories shape how news stories are written to create the outcomes
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New media has increasingly been used since the mid-1990s to disseminate information, resulting in a media revolution. As more and more individuals gain first-hand access to information and audiovisual recording equipment, it is widely believed that the future of journalism will be digital and include a greater number of independent journalists (Gasher, Skinner, & Lorimer, 2012). While it is believed that this will lead to more journalistic independence, the movement also has its critiques. It is thought, for example, that journalists will struggle to keep up with the high speeds of new media, confining them to their desks and preventing story development (Gasher, Skinner, & Lorimer, 2012).
Over the past decade, social media has had a great impact on the way people communicate information to each other. However, this has had some adverse effects on various news outlets and their audiences. Today, it can be inferred that many people prefer getting their news from the internet rather than sitting down in front of a television or reading a newspaper. Many digital news organizations emphasize that social media is important in story-telling and engaging the audiences they attract. It is very important that you get your news when you need it, and in my opinion, the traditional news media does not give information faster than the internet or social media does.
The importance of journalism has always been defined by the inherent value of information. To possess information is to possess power, and without it a society can effectively be rendered mute. The essential functions of a journalist, to be both the watchdogs of the elite and the providers of factual and unbiased reporting to the public, have begun to decline in recent decades. Although the news is integral to the fabric of democracy, the current market imperatives of sustaining a profitable business model, the rise of a corporate ethos within journalistic institutions, and the slowly deteriorating standards of what makes a good story have all contributed to the devaluation of fact-based, unbiased, and investigative journalism. When looking
However some critics were against the push for professionalism and stronger deliverance of objectivity in the field. Their arguments stated that objectivity is only promoting the reproduction of “social reality [that] refuse[s] to examine the basic structure of power and privilege.” Passively presenting information will not help journalists to view the public as humans because as passive information receivers.