There is an existential threat facing local news outlets but also the general info-sources like the national newspapers and television channels, the youngsters not watching those and not reading daily newspapers.
Audiences also want no longer to wait for the 7 p.m. news on local networks. Instead, the public is consumed by the 24-hour news cycle by news apps and more important for many youngsters going to Facebook, where all sorts of fake news easily get shared and duplicated manyfold.
The problem for many magazines, but also for serious newspapers, is that ‘Old news’ is no news and that it becomes therefore difficult to get readers to read the more in-depth articles or to have a column written on something that happened in the week. Papers and new writers, as well as bloggers, want to beat the competition to the story, so they might run with a partial set of facts before the full truth of a matter has surfaced and some even may not mind adding some “pepper and salt” or twist some story to make it more attractive. Nowadays, every story has a spin. One might think such stories are immune, but there is probably someone spinning each of those events right or left.
Today a lot of people are tempted to share spectacular news, more than the truthful stories of matters that should have us think about those matters and should make us react to such matters.
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Perhaps the war generation with the boom children are too old-fashioned and do not yet see that there might be a possibility to get to the public with truthful and serious news by Tweets and social media. Substack is already showing that there are social media trying to share serious news facts and mastodon.social might also opening gates, whilst here and there Facebook pages are receiving much more people than the general press would do.
The wartime generation and the children boom generation are afraid social media may destroy the free press of truth-telling, but perhaps we can see some positive progress in social media like mastodon.social and substack where some serious articles are getting someplace to attract some viewers eager to learn the truth.
At the moment we still are not convinced that those social media viewers are really going to read those in chit-chat presented news stories and would be willing to go to look at the mentioned article which goes deeper into the matter.
It is important for journalists to embrace social media as a facet of reporting. Audiences no longer wait for the 11 p.m. news on local networks. Instead, the public is consumed by the 24-hour news cycle. They expect breaking news to be published across social media platforms faster than it takes to broadcast it. In his 2013 book, Inside Reporting, Tim Harrower writes that “Journalists have been slow to embrace social media. Many think it’s a useless time-waster.” At the time, that statement may have been true. However, this semester Comm 2190 students learned that social media is a vital and important piece of the reporting pie.
Audiences can connect with journalists from across the globe who report on stories that they are personally connected to. Social media allows the public to comment, ask questions, and share journalists’ stories in real-time. I discovered Lead…
A joint effort of several authors who do find that nobody can keep standing at the side and that “Everyone" must care about what is going on in today’s world.
We are a bunch of people who do not mind that somebody has a totally different idea but is willing to share the ideas with others and to be Active and willing to let others understand how "today’s decisions will influence the future”. Therefore we would love to see many others to "Act today".
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