Friday, April 9, 2010

Citizen Journalism and Journalism in Ten Years:

This is how much Citizen Journalism has expotentially grown as you can see on the graphs above; in just two years the hours that the average audience has increased from a little over two hours to over five hours online.

Plus, the Unique audience size that has social networking sites and special niches of the "Long Tail of Distribution" has dramatically increased, too.  Citizen Journalists' is everyone who uses the internet: whether you just surf and read articles and post a short "Tweet" is a citizen journalist.  This has led to the demise of a lot of newspaper organizations to either change the way they market themselves, or they demise into bankruptcy.  The "Atlantic Magazine posted an article by Cyra Master called: Media Insiders say Internet Hurts Journalism, (2009); and she states that a poll was conducted to very prestigous individuals of News Outlets (popular) and tha 2/3 of the respondents were already concerned with Citizens' Journalism and the Internet.  Master (2009) stated that the participants of the survey the costs of journalism online costs more to operate than publishing or to televise.  Some of the prominent News Producers according to this poll, state that the internet has put many respectable News Outlets out-of-business and start-up costs for a new or existing News outlet is very expensive to operate on the Internet.  In harsh-regime countries where they cesnsor content on the internet loses credibility of the news that is being reported through rumors or distortion of the facts.  Journalism in this poll as been criticized for as just a "catch-and-grab" quick snapshot to capture a viewer on the internet and losses its integrity of journalism.  On the other hand, Master (2009) suggests that the Internet has helped some journalists to writing or discussing facts in "real time" pressures; and this opens up the journalism profession to recruit new-talented "free-lancers" with a fresh voice on the Internet" (Masters, 2009, p.2).  Master (2009) also states that some new slang words for journalism is called "micro-coverage (scandal, poll-readings, up-and-down, on the other side).  Take for instance, the Obama campaign news coverage online was so positive and it was everywhere!  Then when President Obama is in office now; he gets more bad-press coverage because of the Citizen Journalists' that criticize him online and the media outlets want to go where the audience flows and this leads to distortion of the true facts of the news story!

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