I was asked to talk about ‘online journalism’, but in a sense, I think there is now no other kind of journalism. By that I mean that anyone practicising journalism anywhere in the world is, in some sense, now conditioned by digital technologies and the Internet. We are all infected, as it were, by conditions or concepts such as citizen journalism, satellite transmission, search, infotainment and hypertextuality.
This is the opening of Charlie Beckett's speech to the 50th anniversary conference of the Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies
Beckett,the Director of Polis who continues to say that
We are a moment of profound change for the news media that raises transformational questions about the ethics, politics and economics of journalism. And journalism itself is a key to answering broader societal and global questions.
I interviewed Charlie a few months ago for a UCLAN project.He is tremendously enthusiastic about journalism and although recognising that the profession faces immense problems he is optimistic of its future.
In this speech he reflects on how the new media can bring hope to areas of the world that were denied access to mainstream information.
Kibere,the world’s biggest slum,on the outskirts of Nairobi where people
have now found a voice through SMS. Through cheap mobile phone texting, its 500,000 people can begin a conversation with the volunteer journalists of a new community radio station Pamoja FM.
The online revolution has created many negatives in journalism,this is happily one of the positives
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