Journalism has to evolve in order to stay an important part of a socioty that increasingly turns more and more toward digital technoglogy. It will have to bend a bit, and so will it's practitioners. I see journalism moving completly into the online world in the future; print, video and audio all coming together to complement each other and form into a complete picture of the events unfolding. While now, different agencies focus thier attention to one form of media over the other, I would not be surprised to see agencies merging and becoming multi focused. Over time, perhaps just audio by itself will find it no longer has a place as users only respond to video or text.The internet has changed what we do, and will continue to change journalism in the future. It is a tool that adds, to the journalists arsonal, the ability to transmit information faster, and more accurately. Rikki talks about it in her article, The Importance of the Online World.
Citizen journalism takes more of a center stage in the Journalism 2.0 theory. Users could define what they whan thier news content be. To some degree we're already seeing that, users can send in whole stories to the Edmonton Sun's Program Yourscoop. An Article called Don't Throw Out the Baby talks about the lines between citizen journalism and professinal journalism. In it Bernard Lunn talks about the possiblilities of bloggers becoming journalists. This is a topic that has seen a lot of attention.
You are right journalism does need to evolve in order to keep up with the world. I disagree; however, that audio will disappear. Although many people prefer video, when a person is cleaning house, or cooking in the kitchen audio makes a nice backdrop. Whether it be music or podcasts audio can tell things video cannot. Sometimes there are compelling words that would be lost if even simple video was added.
ReplyDeleteYou have quite a few typos in this article as well. Might want to look over it again.