Challenges Journalist face in the 21st Century



Challenges Journalist face in the 21st Century

Introduction

With the arrival of internet technology and digitized communication formats, a lot of challenges are continuously coming into ways of journalism over about last two decades in a situation that is unprecedented and has the disciplinary concepts which undergo huge changes. Those changes are diversified and assorted from the journalism of citizen to free flow of news and information via the internet, and through various social networking websites. These new introductions are posing some newer sort of perspectives to a large degree in the field of journalism.

In this paper, there will be a discussion about the challenges that are facing by journalists and news organizations in the fast-paced 21st century and in the rapidly changing digital age. Furthermore, four specific challenges will also be highlighted in the paper that is occurred on national and global level.

Discussion

In the 21st century, journalists have unprecedented resources to obtain and disseminate the information, but various sorts of challenges come up along with those resources. Amongst various challenges that come across the journalism, the four specific challenges on national and global level are mentioned below:

The High Levels of Inaccuracies or Factual Errors being Reported in Print News Stories, and Broadcast Stories

This is amazing that the broadcast stories and printed news stories have been reported as they have a lot of factual errors and inaccuracies. In the field of journalism, there is an excessive need to access an incredible quantity of information on daily basis. Everyone from every different side can make contributions to facilitate broadcasting and reporting, and there is no control over it. If anyone is a blogger, if he/she has some platform to write and share his/her opinions, if anyone can tweet and can post information on Facebook, then they are considered as the master of this world, regardless of whether the information provided is authentic, accurate, free from factual errors, genuine, and reliable. It is not even considered that either that information provided is in compliance with the conventional standards of journalism or not (Robinson, 2011).

Sensationalism, the Tendency for the Press to Play up and Dwell on Stories that are Sensational

Sensational stories are comprised of the criminal activities such as car crashes, kidnappings, or murders etc. The new social media has impacted its deep and disastrous influences on journalism as the tendency of the press to ...