What will 2008 hold.Well for me personally,I will have completed 2/3 of my journalism degree,looking back 2 years I could hardly have imagined that.This time next year I will hopefully be considering what areas to go into with career in mind for the summer of 2009.
As for 2008,I hope to make a great deal more progress on my Lancashire historical travelogue and I have some thoughts of setting up an international news website.However my degree must come first.In the next semester,we move from print to online journalism as well as looking at the digital newsroom and journalism issues.
What will the year hold for the media industry?I am not in the for predictions,but I guarantee that there will be more gloom about the print industry.There will be further debate about citizen journalism and niche and localised reporting.Furthermore there will be little progress in towards an online business model that will not have to be cross subsidized by print.
What is everybody else saying ?
One of my tutors,Andy Dickinson is predicting that the American elections will be a benchmark in multimedia coverage.
the elections will be the first solid, editorial running story that we have had chance to sink our teeth in to in a truly digital way. The coverage of the candidate race is already proving this. But I think that we will really see all the component parts - flash, databases, ,maps, CJ etc. - come together in a way that will be truly convergent.
I totally agree with that one Andy.According to Paul Berton
Reports of the imminent demise of newspapers will be greatly exaggerated (again). Newspapers will still be profitable and thriving by the end of 2008.
Check out his list of predictions.
Steve Borris gives his predictions which include
Fragmentation: Audiences are consuming very little mass media, having splintered-off into a multitude of sites with news that more directly affects their lives, better matches their worldviews, and more closely fits with their interests.
Finally Howard Owens give 10 challenges for today's npn wired journalists which include,
Become a blogger. Start with a favorite topic. For example, if you’re a baseball fan, start with baseball. Find all of the baseball-related blogs you can and become a regular reader of five or six of the best of these blogs. Participate — leave comments; follow links. After three months of blog reading, start your own blog on that topicand
Start using RSS. Use RSS to keep up with the news of the day and the blogs you are now reading every day. Make sure your blog has an RSS feed.
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