Journalis
With the ever changing trend of journalism, it is clear to see where it will be going in a couple of years. Modern technology helps bring journalism to a whole new level. Since the field is so competitive, upcoming journalism students are lucky to score an unpaid internship at a media company such as newspaper or magazine. “It’s reporting by professional journalists, interns, and students appears in Wisconsin newspapers, public radio and television stations and their Web sites,” says the Construction of American Journalism about the Wisconsin State Journal.
Currently, most of journalism student, as well as young adults just out of collegeget their journalism from the web. “The Internet revolution helped to accelerate the decline in print readership and newspapers responded by offering their content for free on their Web site.” Some publications, such as the New York Times, have on-line access to their articles, but not all of them. Online subscriptions are required.
Looking at the future of journalism, there is more online and less paper. As we have seen in the past, magazine and newspaper publications are declining. Small local newspapers are trying to collaborate to work one. Magazines are dying, for example Gourmet magazine from Conde Nast publications is soon to publish its last issue. So whom do we blame for this? No one, modern technology is rising. Why would someone carry a magazine or paper around when they can check it on their computer or smart-phone.
Already young interns blog on websites. Take a look at TeenVogue.com, there is a section dedicated for the intern blog. It is common for interns to do simple work on websites. Upcoming sites only use interns. For the future, only the most popular magazines will stay alive. The classic magazines that have been around for a while, such as Elle and Vogue will make the cut. Magazines such as Lucky or Allure, are not guaranteed to survive. All these publications have websites. Soon, the public will catch on and check the site rather than carry around the magazine.
The same goes for newspapers; the NY Times is a classic. But with its online access, no one knows if they will go paperless. Basically, we make up the future of journalism. Student studying the topic now will be responsible for the publications. As students, we are learning all the modern technology.
I wish I could be kind, but if this is the future, kill me now. Do facts not matter in the future? Gourmet published its last issue more than a month ago. This seems like something that would be harder to get wrong than to get right. I won’t get into the grammar, but I gave up trying to read this after the first sentence of the second paragraph. I guess in the future I’ll have a lot more time since there won’t be anything worth reading. In any medium.