An article that journalism students should read

I am sure that most journalism students will be reading Dave Leigh's article in today's Guardian in which he asks the question


Are reporters doomed?Citizen journalism is hereto stay. But in the rush to embrace new media werisk destroying the soul of traditional reporting

the journalistic future will be a future with less money around. according to Leigh and the internet is to blame for

overloading us with instantaneous terrors,it also degrades valuable principles
— the idea of discrimination, that some voices are more credible than others, that
a named source is better than an anonymous pamphleteer

And the consequences

There will probably be a lot more news bunnies in the future. There will probably also be hyper-local sites — postcode journalism fuelled cheaply by neighbourhood bloggers.But not proper reporters.

So that as regard to the new journalism

It is cheaper and excitingly faster, but it is not alwaysa source of light. People shout past each other. They enjoy the sound of their own voices and confirm their own prejudices through the delicious experience of self-publishing. Paradoxically, more becomes less.

I can agree with what Dave is saying but I still firmly beleive that the new media will provide niches where high quality journalism will rise to the fore.Yes it will be harder to enter the profession and competition once there will be greater,but this will only enhance the reputation of journalism