How can we get the standard definition of Journalism?
Journalism is way to express and explain the events which may impact our lives. It takes many forms according to its nature.
It basic principle is “voice of voiceless” and acts as bridge between people in authorities and their family, that is, common people (even family members whose one serving rank position in authority are referred to as common people until or unless they get kidnapped).
Even you are a journalist, when you carries an information to your own group that they aware of it even before. Now you get relation to this article – it’s about you. Read the paragraphs below to know what I have written about you and your profession.
You want to ask, “Who am I to write about you?” I am equally talented journalist as same as you.
What are the types of journalism?
Widely, broadly and deeply, we classified our emotions into two ways – one is through smile and another one through cry. In such a way, journalism classified into five major forms to express its emotions, namely:
Investigative: Its major objective is to uncover the truth also it forms the basic principle of all journalism.
News: It’s the universally well-known one. It just tell the information or it just relay on facts, information or statics not do investigation on it. It takes place in three forms – print, broadcast and Internet.
Reviews: Most of us surprised to know this is really one part of journalism, as I already said you are a journalist. It’s partly opinion and partly fact based. It accomplishes two things: identify the subject being reviewed and provide intelligent opinion of the subject.
Columns: It’s next step to review journalism. Here, it’s completely your voice – you take a stand on what is wrong or what is right. Here, no point of opinion.
Feature writing: I usually describe it as “Aftermath”. It provides the unseen perspective of an event. Even your guess may happen in reality, your ideas help government to drive one particular plan, etc.
Did the old ethics of journalism still alive in modern era?
Now think “A Day without Google” (surprisingly my next article about it). …………………………………….
How many times you head-on to your watch?
Do you get enough details from the morning and evening newspapers, as the scenario been in early 90’s?
Do you need 24 news channels for 24X7 in your known language(s)?
Even with these numbers of news channels, do you get your high-priority news all the time?
Answer key is: (1) I don’t have habit of using watch, (2) No, (3) No (4) No.
We all need is engaged than entertained. We want some new kind of news than to the stereotype format: Headlines, News in brief, World news, Sports news, Weather report and Business news.
So all news channels always having Flash, breaking, Just in, before 6, after 8, etc kinds of news formats with same footages like the franchise of Tamil horror films.
No time is here to fact check the news. We as users do fact check with other news channels and gathering all forms, start a separate group in WhatsApp and we spread the fact-checked news to one of the first aired news channel. We are unpaid employees of the news channel who opt Work from Option.
Horoscope of Journalism – prediction about its future
Astrologer here is common man. God here is business man. Fate here is celebrities and political parties’ principles.
Now you can predict the future of journalism before switch ON to the news channels.
Because when the news source was newspapers and magazines, it ends there. But in social media, it’s breathing – changing. Anyone can change core theme of any particular news in any second. No journalist wants to sit and read the history before writing any topic. With the readymade source from Internet, they are preparing their dish without minding the words in the ingredients “add SALT/SUGAR as you taste buds need” .
