Journalism

• a literary style and method of inquiry

• practice of investigating and reporting issues, trends and

events

• aims to provide analysis of news and information to public

• Over the years, with the enhancement in the methods and

ways of social media, journalism has undergone a great

change.

• The ways of presenting and analyzing the news have

varied greatly.

• Social media sites play a major role in delivering the

news.

• This has led to the introduction of a new term- Social

Journalism.

What is Social Journalism?

• A media model consisting the hybrid of professional

journalism and reader content.

• makes use of the power of social media tools and

multimedia(Facebook, Twitter, blogs etc.) to spread

the information and news.

The Changing Trend

Ongoing trends of Journalism in regards to Social Media

From inspiration:

• find and cultivate story ideas as well as sources

• follow events and news in real time

To publication:

• find and reach readers where they are

• promote work

• attract traffic to the publication

• create an engaged and loyal reader community

• the digital interface enables journalists to discover and analyse

facts more critically

• more reader feedback is being integrated; more voices are

being heard; more diverse perspectives on the same news are

being presented

• more stories are available, archived and searchable for longer

periods of time

• people are engaged more actively with the changes in the

world by taking photos or making videos of key moments, by

commenting on blogs and sharing stories of interest

Networked journalism

• every journalist acts as node in the network that record

information, share and distribute it

• journalists can sail in the sea of information with the help of

programmers, designers, and hackers who are skilled at

revealing and uncovering digital information.

• faced with large data sets, journalists can include analysis,

connection, explanation, and storytelling.

e.g..

Visual journalism

• journalism is visual and text based at the same time

• text, video, and audio sources are increasingly integrated and

coordinated in narrating

• search engines based on visual matching rather than textual tags

are becoming more refined

• visual literacy is important for journalists

• better understanding and use of images as carriers of

information is needed

Point of view journalism

• Multiple versions of the same story are a natural fact as

different accounts and camera angles of almost any news

coverage are available on platforms like YouTube or Flickr

• Because of the use of multiple sources of news on multiple

platforms, the presumed neutrality and objectivity of the

journalist is increasingly difficult to maintain

• For readers and viewers, it is easy to compare different stories

and photos of the same event and spot the differences

Journalism at Internet speed • The Internet and other digital networks have transformed the

newsroom through global telecommunication networks with broadband capability, wireless communication, and permanent connectivity.

• There is a continuous flow of information/data that must be processed on the spot by constantly updating and rewriting the story

• The basic principles of journalism do not change while working at Internet speed but it does make the reflective practice more difficult

• The greater the volume of information to be examined and the faster its input is demanded for news production, the less time is left for analytical treatment and narrating

A day in the life of a Wired Journalist

• Use crowdsourcing to get a story idea

• Follow up on leads and write the story

• Let tweeps know what you’re writing about, get comments

• Publish on magazine’s online site

• Tweet the link, share it on Facebook and put it up as your

LinkedIn profile note

• Follow up with reader comments and suggestions

Social media sites enhance the work journalists do

• Social networking sites play a great role in delivering the news to

the world

• More than half of the social media users rely and depend on the

networking sites to get the latest updates on news and information

• For journalists and news organizations, social networks provide an

opportunity for connecting with people, distributing news stories

and complementing news coverage with feeds

• Journalists can join the social networks, interact with people

and showcase their articles/stories

• News organizations can create their own pages on networking

sites such as a fan page on Facebook. These pages can be used

to alert people about important news stories the news

organization has published or post other items of interest to its

followers 

• Social networks are great for generating conversations among

people about stories. Many news media have found that the

number of reader comments on a story posted on Facebook

can exceed comments posted on the news organization's

official website

• People are increasingly learning about news stories via social networks

• According to the State of the News Media 2012 report by the Pew Research Centre, News websites got 9% of their traffic from social media such as Twitter and Facebook in 2011, about a 57% increase over 2009

References

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• the transition to digital journalism. (n.d.). Facebook and Social Media. Retrieved June 29, 2014, from http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/digital-transform/social-networks/

• Haak, B. V., Parks, M., & Castells, M. The Future of Journalism: Networked Journalism. , 2923-2938. Retrieved June 29, 2014, from http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/1750/832

• Nieman Reports | What Is Journalism's Place in Social Media?. (n.d.). Nieman Reports. Retrieved June 29, 2014, from http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/101882/What-Is-Journalisms-Place-in-Social-Media.aspx

• What is journalism? Definition and meaning of the craft. (n.d.). American Press Institute RSS. Retrieved June 30, 2014, from http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/what-is-journalism/