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Welcome to my blog. I am so nervous and excited at the same time, you know, I'm a first time blogger but I'm hoping that you will find my blog so interesting to read and also informative. Now, lets get started with our first topic.
Welcome to my blog. I am so nervous and excited at the same time, you know, I'm a first time blogger but I'm hoping that you will find my blog so interesting to read and also informative. Now, lets get started with our first topic.
I don't know how you would go about answering this question, but I think that the best way to understand this question better, is to first break it down, and define what is journalism/journalists and also what is social media, then again we will look at their functions or job, what it does. This for sure will have to help us answer this question right.
What is journalism/journalists?
Journalism is the business of running, or
writing for, newspapers or magazines. Therefore, this implies that journalists
are writers for newspapers and magazines. Journalism involves identifying
newsworthy information for the mass communication. Journalists gather information in the field /public and then
write a report on whatever they find as newsworthy. Furthermore,
Journalism is about gathering and conveying news to a large, diverse audience
through media, whether print, or
electronic. If you've noticed this
definition of journalism/journalists it does not say anything
about the proactive of social interaction, it just a one way communication,
where the public opinions really does not matter at all.
Journalist feed the public with whatever they want and think it's good for the public interest. Hope you'd also agree with me that most people want to gain knowledge, become aware of most important events that are happening around them, they want to feel as part of such events as they affect and influence their lives. The public need to interact, make conversations with the relevant people that influences their lives and also make their views heard. Journalist convey important information to the channels that don't have or have little interaction with the public.
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Journalist feed the public with whatever they want and think it's good for the public interest. Hope you'd also agree with me that most people want to gain knowledge, become aware of most important events that are happening around them, they want to feel as part of such events as they affect and influence their lives. The public need to interact, make conversations with the relevant people that influences their lives and also make their views heard. Journalist convey important information to the channels that don't have or have little interaction with the public.
Now, let us look at what is social media?
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Surely now, you do understand the question very well, let us try to answer it then, I think that yes, we still do need journalists in the age of social media. I know, you might be disagreeing with me, but wait, let me elaborate more on my answer. The only thing that the journalists needs to do, is to quickly adapt to this social media platforms, though it wont be easy and it wont happen over night but still journalists needs to familiarize themselves with the best social media platforms journalists that could be useful and suit well with their job. They just need to add this missing element as part of their job, creating the two way communication and also to hear what's the public opinions on the news report that they writes and publish.
Journalists can also act as opinion-leaders within any social media platform, they just need to engage in conversations with the public, make comments, share their opinions, because in the age of social media everyone can be a journalist, (citizen journalists), they can write and report on any news that is happening in their presence, they don't have to call and wait for a journalist to come from far to write an article but citizen journalists can do that right away instantly via social media networks.
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So, I think that journalists must build a good relationship with the citizens journalists to make their job easy and provide credible and newsworthy information all the time and also to have an instant feedback from the public.
Now let me hear what you have in mind, let put all this into practice, you know, you comment and I reply "instantly", how nice!
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Surely now, you do understand the question very well, let us try to answer it then, I think that yes, we still do need journalists in the age of social media. I know, you might be disagreeing with me, but wait, let me elaborate more on my answer. The only thing that the journalists needs to do, is to quickly adapt to this social media platforms, though it wont be easy and it wont happen over night but still journalists needs to familiarize themselves with the best social media platforms journalists that could be useful and suit well with their job. They just need to add this missing element as part of their job, creating the two way communication and also to hear what's the public opinions on the news report that they writes and publish.
Journalists can also act as opinion-leaders within any social media platform, they just need to engage in conversations with the public, make comments, share their opinions, because in the age of social media everyone can be a journalist, (citizen journalists), they can write and report on any news that is happening in their presence, they don't have to call and wait for a journalist to come from far to write an article but citizen journalists can do that right away instantly via social media networks.
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So, I think that journalists must build a good relationship with the citizens journalists to make their job easy and provide credible and newsworthy information all the time and also to have an instant feedback from the public.
Now let me hear what you have in mind, let put all this into practice, you know, you comment and I reply "instantly", how nice!
Nice blog Kate, your points of how social media is changing society are quite true. Journalists might possibly be left with out jobs but lets hope not in this lifetime! If journalist don't move with times then it will be the end of them because social media is taking over!
ReplyDeleteYes, You are right, journalists are in the process of equipping themselves with the most suitable social media tools. So, yeah, Journalist's job will perish any time soon, plus they will interact with the citizen journalists as well.
DeleteTRUE THAT MISS MALWA
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThis is very interesting and informative hey. Social media really is taking over, slowly but surely.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that so true, that is why we need journalists to up their game and catch up with social media.
DeleteNice blog and very informative!
ReplyDeleteThank you Isaac, hope that you have leant something out of it.
Deletewonderful blog you posted ivy, I just wish that journalist could use more often the social media and networks for most of their stories as its a good platform to acquire news
ReplyDeleteThank Mr Ndhukwani. Journalists are ware of the current situation so they will for sure do their best to be more visible of the social media platforms.
ReplyDeleteWell spoken Ms Malwa, indeed our lives woudn't have been this easier if there were no journalist because they are our eyes and ears in whats happening around here.
ReplyDeleteThank you, and you also can be citizen journalist around your place. you can write and blog about newsworthy information that is happening your area.
DeleteWith no doubt, I strongly say we do need them, they are worth more than social media and are agents of truth. People trust print media a lot than social media. And journalists are gatekeepers, watch dogs or mediators.
ReplyDeleteYes you right, but also I think that journalists also need to learn more about this social media networks, because it where most of their public are interacting the most. Journalists just need to expand their ways of news distribution to fit with their publics and become more interactive.
DeleteGiven the pace of change today, we need journalism that helps us to navigate through uncertainty. We cannot just depend on social media alone without considering the worth of journalists.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Journalists are the credible source of information. We can not just shut them down because of social media but they can also be part of the social media life just to keep up with time and still provide newsworthy information to their social media publics.
DeleteMy own point of view based on this topic is YES we still need journalists in the social media age because journalists are the ones who most of the time post accurate information on social media in order for them to inform the outside world.
ReplyDeleteHi Mr Mayi, that so very true. But also I suggest that Journalists should also work and interact with the citizen journalists in the social media networks in order to get involve and engage in conversations with them to provide the accurate news from the public viewpoint.
ReplyDeleteAs vital as social media is popular we still need journalist. Journalist are still important because they provide everyone including social media with ground breaking news. Social media news are constantly clouded with peoples opinions so we need journalists to clarify everything we see in social media.
ReplyDeleteThank you dear. I also agree with you that Journalists are still the public eye, providing us with the most breaking news with facts. But I also think that they need to transform their work and bring it to where the people are at today, social media, journalists need to be more visible in the social media networks as opinion leaders and engage in conversations that are taking place in this channels.
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