Re-Vamping the News...

Chapter 11 in "Newsonomics" went along quite nicely with my former blog post. I really found this chapter helpful because it discussed what happens after the classes finish and we leave the lovely UNH campus. Like how Bezos is now running The Washington Post, this chapter discussed the business side to news and how running a media organization is very similar to running a business. Despite all the new aspects emerging onto the "journalistic" scene, the foundation remains stable. Although journalists nowadays must be "tweeners" with multiple skills (including multi-tasking) the basic foundations of journalism remains. Being able to report, interview, edit and write are still the most important skills a journalist can possess. However, in today's more digitized age journalism is "also about getting handy with a camcorder and digital audio." It was actually really fitting because we have been talking about this a lot in my 21st century journalism class: how to react to the changes slowly happening in the world of journalism while also sticking to those important journalistic basics. We've actually been thinking about the question- is this influx of technology a blessing or a curse? I don't have a definite answer because on one hand I think having the capability to get information more easily is a great thing for journalists but on the other hand, it should be taken with a grain of salt. Because there is soooooo much information floating around out there, we need to be more skeptical of where the information comes from. That's where the good ol' fashioned basics of journalism come back in!