Comments on: Is social media destroying good journalism?

By: Social Media Newsgathering Tips for journalists (and others) | The Wall Blog

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:36:36 +0000

[...] they “can’t work without social media. It is only some on the fringes who continue to argue that social media destroying good journalism. That is simply not [...]

By: Study says more than a quarter of UK journalists “can’t work without social media” [infographic] | The Wall Blog

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:20:10 +0000

[...] have been here several times before (see here, here and here) . Social media is killing journalism makes a great headline and always sparks a [...]

By: Manchester PR

Manchester PR — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:25:42 +0000

Mmmm not sure I buy most of that, dailies are making money online, the Mail & Sun are still popular & profitable, the Guardian has been losing money for years

Social media is changing things but it will not change everything

Change happens all the time it does not have to be feared all the time though

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Is Instagram Ruining Photography? | Geoff Livingston's Blog — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:09:59 +0000

[...] decried blogs, saying the amateur writing style devalued the media and destroyed news as we know it. In that vein, Andrew Keen made his reputation with the now timeless rant embodied as [...]

By: IMHO: Is social media destroying good journalism? | fhi

IMHO: Is social media destroying good journalism? | fhi — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:55:44 +0000

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By: Future social: the camera never lies | The Wall Blog

Future social: the camera never lies | The Wall Blog — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:49:50 +0000

[...] the debate rumbles on about a perceived decline in quality journalism, could a more visual web improve it or put another nail in its [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:44:50 +0000

There is a huge assumption that all print journalism is truthful and correct. But so much of what our newspapers serve up to us is opinion these days, even in the news! I don’t believe that newspapers offer us anything unique or special that we can’t get via social media channels. It’s about time we stopped wasting all that paper but publishers refuse to let go…

By: simone

simone — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:10:49 +0000

The downfall of journalism is that in the past journalists were paid decent wages but at some point those wages stalled – when I started it seemed daily rates were good, trouble is that I was paid the same ten years later.

Pay a decent wage and I will revert to journalism. Most of my income come from digital writing now, mostly marketing.

Don’t diss the Sun either, very clever people work there with Oxbridge degrees, they are just giving readers what they want. Most people don’t want highbrow stuff, if they did it would easy peasy to launch a high quality product. As it is even broadsheets are dumbing down…

And it’s not my view, most of the senior journos I know are now working for corporate clients, which pay better wages and appreciate quality. And if you think that journalists are here to educate the masses, that is a patronizing attitude. I know it’s hard to stomach but people want celebrity gossip and weird human interest stories. If you want to be highbrow and get brain kicks, I’d suggest you become an academic.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:51:22 +0000

I don’t think it’s the fact that journalism is bad that has caused its “downfall”, Matt. The Sun is still the UK’s leading paper, and it’s dogshit. It’s the fact that we all have access to the internet wherever we go, and the papers themselves- and other media outlets like the BBC- are offering us what we need to know for free online. And there’s no going back from this.

By: Matt Lee

Matt Lee — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:53:38 +0000

Is there such a thing as ‘Good Journalism’?

Journalists are to blame for their own downfall.