Journalism and Social Media: Transition Challenges
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A discussion regarding the impact of new media via social media outlets like Twitter etc., on conventional media and print journalist. This briefly covers the fact that with the rise of independent content creators and journalists thanks to social media accessibility, much has transformed within the general paradigm of journalism, including is ethical landscape due to information and leaks being far more readily appearing in the public space without being filtered or controlled by the conventional gate-keepers of the journalism industry.
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Through the greater ease of accessibility as well as a wider audience pool, social media has widened the pool of opportunity for independent journalism and reporting at the individual level. This has rapidly transformed the conventional journalism model, while also bring substantial shifts to the ethical landscape that generally governed the industry to the point where traditional media has also had to adapt to said changes.
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Speaking in conventional terms, journalism and the wider media industry have operated on a loose but discernible set of ethical principles and frameworks. These are, of course, influenced and even governed by the legal mores of the country in question, but in general, enforced by the fairly narrow and hierarchal structure of a traditional news media outlet. These aren't organisations accessible to the entire public to air their thoughts, opinions and findings on a whim. In fact, typically, very few ever make it into such organisations and even then, what they investigate, what they put together in their articles, segments or reports, how they structure their rhetoric - it's all heavily controlled and moderated by an editorial chain of command. In effect, the conventional industry has a fairly challenging, exclusionary hierarchy with various gatekeeping mechanisms by proxy of said hierarchy. From ethical reporting strategies when it comes to sensitive criminal matters, privacy of individuals, victims as well as confidentiality around on-going criminal investigations, to even whistleblowing exposes where certain considerations have to be made for the anonymity of certain sources, it has all been traditionally managed by the fairly rigid and narrow ...
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