The landscape for journalism now is very different following the introduction of the internet. Take for example, citizen journalism. Citizen journalism is most often considered to be people without journalism training reporting the news to a wide audience. Some citizen journalism occurs when people happen upon breaking news and reporting their story. Other accounts come from people who want a different angle of a story covered and take it upon themselves to do so. In what other ways have the internet revolutionised journalism?
1. Interactivity
I feel that with the advent of the internet impacting journalism, journalism will evolve from being just a one-way street to a form of interactive communication between the consumer and the provider. In the past, most people are accustomed to to the passive format of the radio and TV. However, the internet in future will find new ways to allow comsumers and providers to interact all around the world in real time, to compleltely change the landscape of journalism.
2. Customised news.
As interactivity rises to new levels, providers would be hard-pressed to meet the specific needs of comsumers. This would lead the news to be even more one-dimensional then now. The many that do not interact actively with the journalist do not mean that they are not reading the news. However, the news would be fine-tuned to the content only those with the confidence and the eloquence to speak out are demanding for.
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