The Future of Journalism
Driven by technological change, journalism is being transformed in the ways that is used and produced. We are witnessing the emergence of a flurry of new tools and practices, leading to a redefinition of journalism in a digital age. While there is widespread fear and talk of crisis, we believe that current developments are paving the path towards better journalism and towards more independent journalist.
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Rethinking Journalism in the Digital Age
In the new digital environment, there is more information than ever before. More new facts are being unearthed daily, more voices are being heard, more diverse perspectives on the same news stories are being presented, more stories are available, archived and searchable for longer periods of time, more men and women of power are being watched more closely and more people are engaged more actively with the changes in the world, by taking photos of key moments, by commenting on blogs or by sharing the stories that matter to them.
We believe that this dynamic landscape of witnessing, reporting, storytelling and sharing does not represent a crisis of journalism, but rather an explosion of it. In fact, journalism seems to be more alive than ever and going through a multiplication of forms and of content at amazing speed.
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Journalism as a Public Good
The new digital landscape presents serious challenges to the old institutions of journalism, but the "crisis" in journalism seems to be mainly a crisis of the traditional business models of print and broadcast journalism. So, there is indeed a crisis of the media industry, but not necessarily a crisis of journalism.
We see journalism as a public good. It does not have profitability as a primary goal, but rather the production of reliable information and analysis that is needed in a democratic society. Throughout the world, journalism is funded through a variety of financial models, including government license fees and taxes, philanthropy, advertising , subscriptions, pay-per-view, crowdsourced contributions etc. As long as good journalism is available, produced at lower cost thanks to technology or produced through new business models, journalism is not in crisis from society's piont of view.
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New Journalists
We use a broad definition of journalism, which includes various new practices related to the production of meaningful information in the twenty-first century. In our view, journalism is not just the news (of the day or the week, of a city or even a country), but telling meaningful stories about what is new or is happening in the world, understanding it in context, explaining it to others and making it available so others can use it (keep it, share it, remix it and so forth) for their needs.
Good journalists in the twenty-first century tell fact-based stories about the real world, through text, audio and visuals, which people can relate to, share and appropriate. Journalism varies in form and perspective and includes blogging, radio and television reports, data mining, data visualization, literary journalism, documentary films, photo journalism, immersive storytelling and much more.
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