In this blog, I will discuss the changing nature of journalism.
Journalism is deeply influenced by a changing media environment which has led to a significant increase in the speed of innovation as well as several media channels and platforms.
Firstly, the development of new digital technology has changed news consumption.
For one hundred years before, you could only use the newspaper to read the news.
Next fifty years, we had more options to keep ourselves updated with news which are radio and TV.
Nowadays, to stay informed about breaking news, we only need a wireless laptop, smartphone or tablet.
According to ‘The Impact of Digital Platforms on News and Journalistic Content’ (p.25), in 2018, fifty-nine per cent of Aussies accessed news by using their smartphones.
Moreover, due to the growth of social media, the social network has been considered as a medium for producing and distributing the news.
Newspapers and TV channels will put their stories and breaking news online first, such as on their official Facebook page or Twitter accounts before broadcasting the story.
Besides the professional and traditional journalism, ‘citizen journalism’ also currently plays a key role in spreading the news on the Internet.
The ‘citizen journalism’ could be a threat for professional journalism because their news would be likely to spread faster than professional journalists’ news because the journalists have to sit on their stories for many hours to produce news.
Nevertheless, ‘citizen journalism’ has led to the rise of fake news, they received a lot of engagement from social media users and they could crowd out real news.
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