It is difficult to predict where news will take us in the future. Many predict that the rate of news will level off, as it seems that we have already reached maximum speeds of reporting and consumption. It is more likely that the industry of news production will change. Newspapers are a declining industry, mainly …
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the first of its kind in the world. It is also the loudest news organization on the planet and employs over 20,000 people across the world. Due to its aims of impartiality and fair representation, it is often cited as the …
WikiLeaks is a nonprofit organization which seeks to publish news which is often classified and therefore outside to be made of traditional media outlets. The Australian Julian Assange Is credited as the founder of WikiLeaks and he’s also organization’s director. WikiLeaks has released a multitude of documents which include information from the Afghan war diary, …
Citizen journalism is a practice where by the general public play a role in the reporting collecting and distribution of news. In contradiction with professional journalism citizen journalism, otherwise known as public or participatory journalism, He’s not a job in there for the people producing the content does not get any monetary reward. Reasons for …
Photojournalism is a form of the industry which focuses on telling the story over narrative through visual images. Just like with other types of journalism, photojournalism is subject to a stringent range of practices which made it has to be fair and representative of the events which it is covering. Photojournalism was born out of …
A journalist is a person who reports on the news or current affairs. Most often, they tend to specialize in a particular area such as politics, sports or health – though this is not always the case, especially with broadcast reporters who will be sent to wherever a story is happening. The two primary areas …
It seems there has always been a great appetite for news if not always a method to communicate it effectively. Documents show that ancient civilizations including the Zulus and be Mongolians frequently questioned visitors to that localities in order to try and take information about world events from them. During the Greek and Islamic empires, …
The role of news in society is a complex one. While at face value it simply appears to be there to inform people about current events, when you dig a little deeper, it actually plays a much more integral an important role in maintaining a stable society. Without news, people would find it substantially more …
Every morning billions of people wake up around the world, turn on their televisions or radios or check their phones to look at what events are occurring across the globe. Some seek the events in global politics, some eager for the happening in their local area, while others go straight to the gossip pages to …