Throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries when the journalism industry began to blossom, a series of changes have occurred within the field. Various scholars, writers, and publishers have argued multiple facets within and surrounding the journalism industry. A few topics include its role in society, the types of reporting genres, broadcasting and the role of reliable news, and the use of social media to share what’s happening currently in news. Works shown in this paper date back as far as 1906 and as recently as 2010. Two viewpoints provided by Philadelphia Public Ledger publisher George W. Ochs, the author of a 1906 scholarly article titled “Journalism” state the role that journalism has in society and the importance of outstanding
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This article discusses the development of the internet and and its role in the future of the news industry and covers trends online with news outlets and social media websites. The author’s thesis is that the growth of the internet during the first decade of the twenty-first century has been astounding because it’s connecting people at much faster speeds. The most popular properties on the web are Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Among the largest trends, the most notable trend is in video with sites such as YouTube, Vine, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and NetFlix. By 2008, on nearly a monthly basis, about 75% of users of the internet watched videos online. This trend in video has also been supported by multiple technological innovations. Since the last three presidential elections, internet traffic has also shown an incredible growth. For instance, during the 2008 election, there was a growth from 2.4 to 4 million Americans connecting their devices to the world-wide web. Lastly, the number of people using telephones over the last 75 years has been exorbitant as 50 million users are communicating over their phones daily. In regards to journalism, the co-authors of this article stated the impact the internet has had on it: “The internet has made video much easier to share, as the web’s wide reach, combined with its highly interconnected, highly social nature, enables online media to reach an unprecedented number of viewers within a very short
This article discusses the development of the internet and and its role in the future of the news industry and covers trends online with news outlets and social media websites. The author’s thesis is that the growth of the internet during the first decade of the twenty-first century has been astounding because it’s connecting people at much faster speeds. The most popular properties on the web are Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Among the largest trends, the most notable trend is in video with sites such as YouTube, Vine, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and NetFlix. By 2008, on nearly a monthly basis, about 75% of users of the internet watched videos online. This trend in video has also been supported by multiple technological innovations. Since the last three presidential elections, internet traffic has also shown an incredible growth. For instance, during the 2008 election, there was a growth from 2.4 to 4 million Americans connecting their devices to the world-wide web. Lastly, the number of people using telephones over the last 75 years has been exorbitant as 50 million users are communicating over their phones daily. In regards to journalism, the co-authors of this article stated the impact the internet has had on it: “The internet has made video much easier to share, as the web’s wide reach, combined with its highly interconnected, highly social nature, enables online media to reach an unprecedented number of viewers within a very short