Author: newswriters

Paul Graham American computer scientist and writer I’m usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won’t be many people who can write. One of the strangest things you learn if you’re a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many people have a mole they’re worried about; people who are good at setting up computers know how many people aren’t; writers know how many people need help writing. The reason so many people have trouble writing is that it’s fundamentally difficult. To write…

अमित दत्ता “Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell जॉर्ज ऑरवेल का यह कथन पत्रकारिता के मूल को दर्शाता है. सत्ता को चुनौती देना, सच उजागर करना, और उन बातों को सामने लाना जिन्हें लोग छुपाना चाहते हैं। लेकिन आज के समय में पत्रकारिता इन आदर्शों से दूर होती नजर आ रही है। डिजिटल मीडिया के इस दौर में, जहां सूचनाओं की बाढ़ है, पत्रकारिता से उम्मीद की जाती थी कि वह और गहराई से सच को सामने लाएगी। इसके बावजूद, ऐसा कहा जा रहा है कि पत्रकार आज पहले की…

by Marcy Burstiner Journalists are trained to be objective. But what does that mean and where did that idea come from? And is it achievable? In the world of traditional journalism, reporters were supposed to be objective. That meant that they were supposed to report without bias. You might personally believe everyone has the right to an abortion or believe that abortion is wrong, but your reporting and how you write or tell the story couldn’t reflect that. Objectivity has seemed to all but disappear in the digital age. The thing is, it only became an ethical practice in the…

Dr. Pradeep Mahapatra In the mass-media sphere all creative content undergo scrutiny at several layers before publication. For example, when a reporter files a story for newspaper, it has to be cleared by one or more professional editors to be fit for printing. Policy for selection of news and opinion for individual news organisations are determined by the publisher, editor or editorial board of respective publications. Often social and political directives play a vital role in determination of editorial priorities. However, at times, in absence of external obstacles and compulsions, the journalists prefer to keep themselves off from writing news…

In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – especially by opposing free speech restrictions they say are rife at those sites. These newer sites have created a small but satisfied community of news consumers, many of whom say one of the major reasons they are there is to stay informed about current events, according to a new Pew Research Center study. The study included a survey of U.S. adults along with an audit of…

Jacob Granger “What sort of journalism do we need to teach?” is the question at the heart of a new book Challenges and New Directions in Journalism Education. In the UK, university is the main way to enter the profession – nine in 10 journalists hold a university qualification. Speaking on the Journalism.co.uk podcast, book editor Karen Fowler-Watt, said she wanted to lift the lid on how curriculums were designed. She explores various topics with a range of academic peers and every chapter includes a reality check from her journalism students. “It’s about showing students how messy, difficult, challenging and…

By Muskan Bansal Trust in the media has fallen globally. Today on average, according to Reuters Institute’s 2023 Digital News Report, just four in 10 people say they trust news most of the time. Amid this decline, people are also more likely to avoid consuming news coverage. One way journalists and news organizations can strengthen audience trust is to focus on reaching people who may not actively read or watch the news, suggested Lynn Walsh, assistant director at Trusting News, during an ICFJ Empowering the Truth Global Summit session. To do so effectively, it’s important for journalists to “think like…

Dr. Pradeep Mahapatra Digital transformation of local news platforms in the developed nations has created a new chapter in the post-Covid19-pandemic world order. While the local print daily and weekly newspapers continue to close their operation or migrate into digital format, a good number of independent digital native news platforms have emerged. Research findings denote that people in such geographies prefer to access local news from websites, apps and social media instead of television, radio or print platforms. ‘Pew Research Center’ of United States of America conducted a research during January 2024 to understand societal habit in consuming local news.…

The news industry is talking about AI. This is unsurprising, because AI models like ChatGPT seem to be capable of automating many of the cognitive tasks that underpin journalistic workflows, and those models seem to be steadily improving. There is a sense that news may be on the cusp of great change, and that some of what is traditional and familiar in journalism may be subsumed into new, more automated ways of gathering, producing, distributing and consuming news. As news producers learn about and experiment with AI, their early projects and prototypes tend to focus on opportunities that are well…

Dr. Pradeep Mahapatra While news industry worldwide continue to struggle with defects in business models, loss of public faith and news avoidance by the consumers in the post-Covid19-pandemic New Normal, the growing trend of accessing news from online non-news sites turns the media environment more toxic. After 300 years of supremacy of the print media in dissemination of news, new mediums such as radio, television and cinema appeared during the twentieth century and adjusted themselves in the prevailing structural framework. However, spread of internet during the last decade of twentieth century and emergence of social media from the beginning of…