The future of journalism in the digital environment
S. Elizabeth Bird
Journalism 2009 10: 293
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909102583
Everywhere we look, commentators are sounding the death knell for print journalism. Many newspapers are disappearing, while others (like the venerable Christian Science Monitor) move almost exclusively to online formats.
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We can all agree that today’s digital environment has transformed the print-based, one-way nature of journalism. Research shows that fewer people than ever read print newspapers, and young people who once could be expected to become newspaper readers as they matured, no longer do. They may be still interested in news, but their ‘news habit’ is completely different.
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In an environment of constant information, already permeable lines between ‘news’, ‘entertainment’, and other genres like gossip and rumor seem to fall away entirely. But what does this really mean? Does the decline of the newspaper necessarily mean the decline of journalism itself? To some extent the answer we choose depends on our understandings of what journalism is.
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In this vision, anyone with something to say can be a journalist. In addition to the ubiquitous blogs, newspapers and TV news stations are jumping on the bandwagon of participatory journalism, inviting the public to send in videos and stories.
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The rise of the citizen-journalist is accompanied by a decline in jobs for trained journalists, with massive layoffs striking newspapers and TV news organizations. Media convergence, through which newspapers, TV news, and online formats all use the same information, leads to fewer jobs in journalism – even online journalism.
S. Elizabeth Bird
Journalism 2009 10: 293
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909102583
Everywhere we look, commentators are sounding the death knell for print journalism. Many newspapers are disappearing, while others (like the venerable Christian Science Monitor) move almost exclusively to online formats.
...
We can all agree that today’s digital environment has transformed the print-based, one-way nature of journalism. Research shows that fewer people than ever read print newspapers, and young people who once could be expected to become newspaper readers as they matured, no longer do. They may be still interested in news, but their ‘news habit’ is completely different.
...
In an environment of constant information, already permeable lines between ‘news’, ‘entertainment’, and other genres like gossip and rumor seem to fall away entirely. But what does this really mean? Does the decline of the newspaper necessarily mean the decline of journalism itself? To some extent the answer we choose depends on our understandings of what journalism is.
...
In this vision, anyone with something to say can be a journalist. In addition to the ubiquitous blogs, newspapers and TV news stations are jumping on the bandwagon of participatory journalism, inviting the public to send in videos and stories.
...
The rise of the citizen-journalist is accompanied by a decline in jobs for trained journalists, with massive layoffs striking newspapers and TV news organizations. Media convergence, through which newspapers, TV news, and online formats all use the same information, leads to fewer jobs in journalism – even online journalism.
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