well well week 4 was amazing. lol. A trio by the names of ben o'neill, ben murphy, and nick scully turned in a thought-provoking presentation regarding the future of journalism.
there has been a lot of growing concerns that print magazines, newspapers, are all reaching a early demise. due to things like citizen journalism and the ease of "free" news that would be able to find in the Internet, has the world lost its need for print journalism?
here is this cool video that i found that kind of predicts the future of mobile communications, and also the spread of the Internet.
i mean if their predictions are correct, its is going to be scary, with so many people able to access content, and even news agencies cannot keep up to second by second news, except those who would already be at the news sites, the citizens. my own opinion on how newspapers should survive is to retain the professionalism of journalism by retaining journalists, however having the speed of the citizens and people who were already there. I.E. when something happens, the citizens would tape it down and note down any other information which wasnt captured on the video, and then send it over to the journalist. the journalist, now in no need to go to the site and take their notes, just need to clean up the video that they have and come up with a story in 10-15 minutes. this can even be done on the way to the site if the issue is a massive cover story. the most important thing that newspapers can do now is to get the story out in the quickest and most professional way possible.
I'm not saying that this is fool-proof and is guaranteed to work. Even I can see the various flaws that may befall this elementary model, not to mention if it is put to practice. However, as O'Neill says, new models to help fund journalism and its newspapers has to be found, if not we may see journalists going without food, operating at half their capability. I shudder to think when my turn comes. Hopefully there would be a turnaround soon.
Joel
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