Thursday, September 20, 2012

My job vs the internet

The advent of citizen journalists is slowly eroding our work as practicing journalists.
Because your cell phone is now your camera, your laptop and anything you want it to be, the work of the practicing journo is now being taken by the citizens.
While it is encouraged to have citizen journalists, a way to curb their prominence over the journalist in the newsroom should be devised.
A few years ago, we would be rushing around in the field gathering news and taking pictures but now, journalists are lying idle in the newsroom because by tea time, ten people would have visited the newsroom with stories and pictures.
"Honestly, what is my job description."
Citizen journalists can post the story you wanted to break in tomorrow's edition on the internet.
Most people in this country use the internet for Facebook more than anything and they can just post you scoop.
Newspapers take time to print and they just go to print just because you have a hot story that you ant to break.\
All stories are gathered and collected at once then sent for print.
By the time, your paper comes out in the morning the next day, its stale!
No one buys it because they got the news from Facebook!
Where does this leave the journalist?
Advance yourself and be ahead of the citizen journalist.
Learn about the latest technologies, start blogging and tweeting because that's where everything is now aligned to.
I think in ten years journalists will be crazy bloggers!
I have already started and I think blogging is the new thing.
Journalists will now be working online because the internet usage has greatly increased and the hard copy sells will go down.
In ten years time our newsrooms will be transformed with father internet and the latest computer technology.


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