New technologies and journalism
posted on 26. February 2006 at 06:55 PM
"Neue Technologien gefährden den Journalismus"
Let's try to translate the sentence above.
a) new technologies endanger journalism
b) new technologies put journalism at risk
c) new technologies jeopardize journalism
I'd prefer "to jeopardize" as it is closest to what I think the real issue is: challenge. If professional journalists are challanged by citizen journalists (aka "bloggers") then what should be the appropriate response? Even better research. Increase in quality and output.
I will try to cover the social impact of weblogs in my presentation at the Edelman Blue Hour on Tuesday. If you are attending: you will probably walk away with more questions than answers. And that's a good thing.
The problem is not a replacement of journalists by amateurs, the problem is that Blogreaders will not read next-day-Newspapers in the future. Look at the major blogs and newssites in germany; They provide informations like newsagencys. The classic information flow is: event-newsagency-radio/TV-Newspaper-Reader. The new one will be: event-blogger-blogreader or event-newsagency-"major online newsprovider like spiegelonline"-blogs. As you can see, the newspaperpart is gone. But journalists are still there.
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