Convergence in Journalism to use the different strengths of different media to reach broader audiences and tell the stories in new ways
EX:
print journalist summarizing stories into TV camera or live tweeting as the
event happens
Crowd Sourcing: Readers/viewers are invited to submit own stories,
photos, and videos, or even their expertise
WHAT NEWS IS
News
is: relevant, useful, and interesting.
News
is a report of a current event. It is information about something that has just
happened or will happen soon. News is a report about recent happenings in a
newspaper, television, radio or internet. News is something that is not known
earlier. From all these, we can safely define news as a development that has
happened in the past 24 hours which was not known outside and which is of wide
interest to the people and that which generates curiosity among listeners.
Elements of a Good News Story
Impact: how many people are affected; how does it affect
them Larger the impact, better the story
Conflict: struggles between people, among nations, or natural
forces
Novelty: are they unusual/bizarre?
Prominence: big names make news
Proximity: people more interested in what happens close to
home
Timeliness: news now needs to be instantaneous
Engagement: news is usually the beginning of a conversation
Solutions: no solutions are often offered in the tone can make
people cynical about certain things
HOW DIFFERENT MEDIA PRESENT THE
NEWS
·
News can be of
crime, politics, world affairs, but also humor and gossip
·
News is more
than telling telling a story
·
Papers/Magazines
are best about explaining the impact of an issue (ppl remember it)
·
Television is
best at speed and emotional power
·
Online
journalism brings together the immediacy and comprehension
THE RISE OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM
·
Citizen
Journalist - People not employed by traditional news organizations and often
not professionally trained
o Use technology social media to report and comment on
news
·
Legacy media –
traditional media outlets, such as newspapers, magazines, broadcast TV
THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM
First
Amendment protects freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly
CHALLENGES TO JOURNALISM
·
People who make
the news threaten the freedoms we have
o How much freedom is compatible with safety?
·
People question scepticism
about reporting
o People see bias, inaccuracies, hurt to democracy
PRINCIPLES OF GOOD JOURNALISM
Tell
the truth, first loyalty is the citizens, essence is a discipline of
verification, practitioners must remain independent from those they cover, must
serve as an independent monitor of power, must provide forum for public
criticism, strive to be interesting and relevant, news must be comprehensive
and proportional, practitioners must be allowed to exercise their conscience,
citizens have rights and responsibilities when it comes to the news
Journalist’s Responsibilities in a
Democracy
·
Report the news:
variety of topics in a variety of forms
·
Monitor power:
in the government and in private businesses (even when things are done
legitimately)
·
Uncover
injustice
·
Tell compelling
stories: may delight or dismay audiences
·
Sustain
communities
·
Curate info:
collect, sort, and verify information
ACCURACY AND FAIRNESS
·
Accuracy is the
most important thing
·
Being fair
requires you to ask yourself if you have done enough to uncover all the
relevant facts and have delivered those facts in an impartial manner, without favouring
a side
o Must find every viewpoint on a story
DEALING BIAS
·
Journalists ARE
biased towards conflict
o War is better story than peace, celebrity is better
than average
·
Journalism
typically thought of liberal bias
o At a deeper level, American journalism is strongly
conservative question capitalism or system)
THE ISSUES OF OBJECTIVITY
Must
be neutral and balanced, and not necessarily the openness that the world needs
WHAT IS NOT NEWS
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