What is the future of journalism? | A-Z of ISMs Episode 10 - BBC Ideas

What is the future of journalism in a world of 'fake news', social media and citizen journalism? Charlie Beckett takes a look at the history and future of journalism.

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#journalism #fakenews #citizenjournalism

[chrisalex]

Journalism has turned into a dictionary where news are defined in vague generalized ways without context and extensive research. News today are not about explaining and therefore informing the what, the how, and the why of news, but rather what this or that person feels about a topic. That's basically it. Context is only given to be able to later add the opinions of people who are often not experts. Journalism today dedicates no time to properly research topics and answer fundamental questions with the appropriate answers, but rather focuses on defining the topic so then it can proceed to interview people on what they feel about it. Journalism today is not journalism at all. Topics are not actually explained.

[samanzibar]

The animation in this video is so nice! Would love to know who did it?

[marcocarlosavalos]

Thank you for this video. I have learning a lot from it. But I have a question: what happens when the fake news itself are comming from a mainstream media?

[AngloSaxon]

If traditional journalists can work side by side with citizen journalists I think that is the way foreward.

[bnieztx]

There should be an epileptic warning for the first part of the video

[avishgangwar]

In my opinion journalism is important and has the potential to connect humanity at a level that allows everybody to know everything (comprising the -ves and the +ves that comes with it). This goes to show that evolution is a spider of creation that needs journalism to unlock the knowledge of the universe as a single consciousness including all available knowledge to create utopia while considering all possibilities that can be explored regardless of their chances of being true.

[GodEmperor_]

The truly great part about the internet is how you "yourself" can find information about said topic and see how much of mainstream journalism holds up to the facts and information you've found.

[GjaP_]

"The Future of Journalism is Digital"
The journalism industry faces a dilemma: get with the times or die.
AMIE HAVEN, JOURNALIST - 27th January 2020
Source: UX Connections

[faalugram]

Hypocrisy has become a trend these days.

[John]

Incredible! This content is a true masterpiece. I recently read a similar book, and it was an absolute gem. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

[Snow-voyi]

Really? Are we really doing this? Do you actually think were dumb enough to think that its good to be lied to?

[namenotimportant]

Keep digging that hole bbc, you stand for so much propoganda, stopped telling the truth decades ago.

[yogitharanachandrasekhar]

Bye Journalism akka Anna people society 1950journalism

[Peterkramer]

THERE is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns.
You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
I am paid $150.00 a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with—others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things—and any of you who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread.
You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an “Independent Press.”
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
John Swinton, 1883.

[queenofcats]

Which news is real news? Are you supposed to take their word for it lolz

[allyzaunabia]

can you be a journalist with political science?