Which Comes First — Newspaper or Blog?
Friday, January 15, 2010
At Penn State, a group of students have beaten the school paper at informing the student body on their blog, Onward State. This blog, which was created just a mere 14 months before, is run by only 20 students compared to the school paper which is ran by 200 students. It does seem impressive that this group of students is able to report stories much faster than that of an average paper. They reported a story 4 days before the paper was able to. Chase Tralka has even admitted that the paper has stolen items from the blog to use for publication. This is easily setting an example for the possibility of the future of journalism.
People are wanting the news as soon as it happens and blogging seems to the way to make that possible. At NYU they also have a blog set up and this seems to be similar to Onward State. It is called NYU Local, and deals with issues involve the students. Another idea is that the closer the news, the more important it will be to those that it will affect.
The true question that this brings up is how this will affect the future of newspapers. Many have begun using online sources to access the articles that are online. This not only is convenient but helps reduce the amount of paper that needs to be produce. While almost all newspapers have gone to the web, there is still the transition from news articles to blog entries that could possibly replace the idea of journalism completely. The only negative thing that was said was the fact the blogger can post anything, which would mean that the traditional idea of named sources, unbiased opinions, and printing information that is inaccurate or false would not be necessary for the blogger to post. This would make the article riskier to believe, and ultimately make it harder to trust the media.
3 comments:
I think that the students who created the blog are setting a precedent for future news coverage. I think that before we will be able to use only blogs we need to make them user freindly. What I mean by user freindly is that Some people especially those that arent used to computers need to be able to easily access the news. I'm twenty one and untill just recently had no clue how to write or even what a blog really was. I still dont know all the ins and outs. So the easier we can make it to use the better.
I think this is very interesting, and very true. I, for one, am excited to see this blog take off. If I went to Penn State, I would be all over this blog, because I could access it from my phone. I rarely check my mailbox, so I never get the paper until a couple weeks after it has come out. I would love for Simpson to have a blog that I could reach whenever I wanted to on my phone. I think this is the beginning of the new news world.
Journalism is a field that is evolving with the internet and as the interent grows and expands so does journalism. I think the internet is agret tool for journalism and students should be able to learn the new advances in journalism. I also think its important to learn the history of journalism and how newspapers have played a huge role in jouralism. It is important for students to be able to use both ways of reporting
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