Online Journalism

The future of journalism is moving toward a web-based, web-first system and the sooner we all embrace this shift the more prepared we can be for the future. Journalism educators can help students understand this change and embracing the new media culture and staying current with the changing communication trends.  Journalism professionals also need to keep up with current trends in new media because they way people get their information is changing. In the article Where Young Adults Intend to Get News in Five Years the author suggests that traditional media will overcome new media as the main source of news for young adults. This article was written in 2008, two years later this information is already outdated. Young people are getting their news from online sources and social media more often than from traditional media.  In the article The Journalist as a Programmer (Royal, 2010) discusses how data and journalism are being used to compliment each other, rather than two separate departments, at the New York Times.  People have an inherent need to communicate, and with the rise of new media we are finding that there are other people out there who want to know what we have to say. People will always seek information and news, it is the way we are receiving it that is changing.  The data has always been the driving force of journalism. Journalists take the data and put it in a form that we can consume and use. New media is making it possible for the consumer and the journalist to post data and we have the privilege of having more than one source to refer to.

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