There is no New Media and we’re all correspondents

room with a view of the press
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No, seriously. There isn’t. The news is as it ever has been and ever was. The tools we use to send and receive news have changed. That’s it.

Do you think that when the move from bulletins to newspaper than a thousand gurus calling the news something else? No, industrialisation brought printing presses and mass production in the equation. The news didn’t change, the tools did.

Another misnomer, how people have evolved into citizen journalists…

If anything, the mode of sharing news across social networks has regressed into an art more akin to the traditional role of correspondence. Shortform updates blasted from that rally, a photo of a burning building. In going forward, we are actually returning to news from the ground. We’re not citizen journalists, we’re correspondents.

May 10th, 2010 at 12:28 am • Filed in Brainstrobing



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One Comment to “There is no New Media and we’re all correspondents”

  1. Laura Daly Says:
    May 10th, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    Nicely put. In common with the times move is faster, shorter and evloving all the time. As any good correspondent will tell you it’s being one step ahead of the pack that is the secret, the use of Social Networking sites just aids the process.



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