There has been talk about journalism changing as technology is continuing to grow. Journalists have more ways to distribute news to the public at a faster speed. Breaking news updates can be sent in an instant through Twitter updates and photos from Instagram; Even breaking news clips right onto their news website.
Social media sites are popping up with new ways to feature news and pass news along to more people around the world. New sites are getting blogs and Twitters to be able to post things up faster than ever. However, is social media killing the traditional ways of journalism? Is journalism fading out completely due to media?
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| Twitter Talk |
Journalism has changed along with social media. As social media sites grew, journalism's online usage grew. I believe that with everything else in this world: things change with time.
With the outbreak of soical media in the past decade with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat, and blogging have made journalism faster paced in practically every way.
Some journalist's tweets show that all journalists should take advantage of the new technology.
Some Twitter names I follow:
1. Journalistics (@journalistics): tweets a lot about Journalism; whether it has to do with multimedia, or just new things happening around the world. The tweet below links an
article about keeping up with social media sites can be beneficial to journalists.
2. Future Journalism (@The_FJP) Re-tweeted a post from Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) which
linked an article about the New York Times and what they learned about having one of the web's largest Twitter accounts.
A few other Twitter accounts I follow for Journalism insight:
- Patricia Kitchen (
@patriciakitchen)
-Mashable (
@mashable)
-Journalism.co.uk (
@journalismnews)
Since journalism has been introduced to multimedia, it has come a long way. With Twitter, apps for smartphones, journalists can upload instant clips to viewers getting out the information faster then they could before.
Another part of this multimedia journalism is blogging. Many news sites are now posting blogs to report stories as well. The
New York Times has a page where you can search different blogs. Blogs open up more opportunities for news stories as well as websites, Twitter, and Facebook.
According to Mark Briggs in his book "Journalism Next," to be a successful blogger one should:
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| Journalism Next By: Mark Briggs |
- Read and comment on other blogs to get a feel of how other write
- link other blogs to posts
- Promote the latest news
- use links to other sources/articles
- Be direct
- Be the authority with personality
- organization is key
- post daily and put readers first
- make it scanable
some others may include:
- summarize and analyze
- specific headlines
- use photos and screen shots to make blog more appealing to viewers
- Post early and post often
If theses things are followed there is a good chance viewers will increase and you will be viewed as a good blogger/journalist.
Here is another outlook on
multimedia Journalism .This article from Monmouth University "The Outlook" a student-run Newspaper, looks at the many changes Journalism has changed since social media has exploded into this generation; and if it it is helping, or actually hurting the journalism world. The media is partly to blame that people are straying from the traditional ways of journalism. However, one may ask the question, "is traditional ways of journalism enough anymore?" Can it really be determined if it is running or helping journalism as a whole? Journalism is a growing field and will continue to grow as multimedia grows.
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