Internet & The Future of Journalism

Com 125 Weekly Blog Entry No. 9

The Future of Media

What will the future of media landscape look like? How will Web 2.0 effect reporting and how will future media be consumed? What products and tools will journalists and other creators use?

Blogs today, has changed the the way people view current issues and it has emerged as a new platform of reporting on current affairs. For example, Live Blogging, and how it has changed the media world. Indeed, Internet users can express themselves, write about a personal issue, or stay in touch with current media reports and input personal comments on these matters.

For this, let us first observe what others have to say about the future of Journalism on online blogging.

How Live Blogging is Changing Journalism

As we have observed, the News medium has already shifted from Print, to TV, and to the Internet. Below is a another video showing why there are going to be more lay-offs in Journalism because of the prevalence of the the Internet Phenomenon.


JourNalists Lay-offs

Everyone can Publish & Everyone will

Jay Rosen, a blogger and journalism professor at New York University, calls "the people formerly known as the audience."

"In this new world, the audience and sources are publishers," Mr. Rosen said. "They are now saying to journalists, 'We are producers, too. So the interview lies midpoint between us. You produce things from it, and we do, too.' From now on, in a potentially hostile interview situation, this will be the norm."

All these developments have forced journalists to respond in a variety of ways, including becoming more open about their methods and techniques and perhaps more conscious of how they filter information.

For one thing, the power of blogs is exponential; blog posts can be linked and replicated instantly across the Web, creating a snowball effect that often breaks through to the mainstream media. Moreover, blogs have a longer shelf life than most traditional news media articles.
A newspaper reporter's original article is likely to disappear from the free Web site after a few days and become inaccessible unless purchased from the newspaper's archives, while the blogger's version of events remains available forever. For this reason, the accessibility and convenience of retrieving a past document from the web, indefinitely, over shadows the reporter's article.

Why exactly do people engage in self-reports?

Some say its the news and the media that purposefully distorts the the actual story altogether. For example, news which were edited and censored so as to prime viewers accordingly with an agenda.
In addition, some say, reports in the newspaper yield uninteresting, untrue, and unclear facts which affect readers and thus, they turn to online information for a more credible source to satisfy these feelings of unrest when consuming news and information.
In Conclusion

What are your views on the difference between fact-based reporting or opinion-based reporting? Do you think Blogger's hiding behind laptops and monitor screens act as credible sources?

Are these opinion-based assumptions worthy of a right or wrong answer? Perhaps, this question still offers more room for discussion. Biasness is inevitable when it comes to expressing of one's own personal views on the subject matter.
Again, the decision is yours to evaluate if something is really true, or maybe, it may just be another bias blogger who is against such issues.

An END to an ERA of Accurate, Informative news.