{"id":32341,"date":"2015-05-31T10:27:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T10:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=32341"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:53:35","slug":"who-should-be-called-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/who-should-be-called-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Should Be Called Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Who-Should-Be-Called-Journalist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32367\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Who-Should-Be-Called-Journalist.jpg\" alt=\"Who Should Be Called Journalist\" width=\"217\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We live in the digital age<\/strong>. The age where we are not just connected, \u00a0we are digitalized. We have a digital personality, a history and a predicted future. <strong>Today we live in the cyber world as much as we do in the real world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Its won&#8217;t be false to say that the line b\/w the two is disappearing\u00a0 precariously. Digitalization has taken a swing at most of the world around us, but what it has affected the most is the field of journalism. New media technologies has revolutionized media to the phase of 24\/7 news. With greater instantaneity and the greater degree of mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Before the journalistic process had a hierarchy, where everything was judged and reviewed , scrutinized to the littlest detail possible. Agendas and discussions \u00a0where done face to face and there was a civil format for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Today we have joined a faceless mass, a mass of twitter followers and re-tweets. Where any news can be sensationalized , compromising the boundaries of private and public.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u00a0 really has altered the landscape of journalism is <strong>&#8220;citizen journalist&#8221;<\/strong> a group of journalist who chose to call themselves journalist on their free will , who have somehow entitled themselves responsible for distribution of information, which many of them do not have the means to verify or the authority to distribute.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not hidden that citizen journalism\u00a0 is a boon to investigative journalism as an abundance of sources. \u00a0\u00a0There are many a e.g. \u00a0Where citizen journalism have had a great role to play. Yet, there are also e.g. Where their activities have led to disasters.<\/p>\n<p>One such e.g. Was the recent incident <em>when\u00a0 <\/em><em>a false report surfaced on CNN\u2019S\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireport.com\/index.jspa\">ireport<\/a>\u00a0that Steve jobs had a heart attack and apple\u2019s stock took a temporary 10-point hit. The report has been\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireport.com\/docs\/DOC-102841\"><em>removed<\/em><\/a><em>, but only after\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/10\/apple-s-steve-jobs-rushed-to-er-after-heart-attack-says-cnn-citizen-journalist\"><em>silicon alley insider<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>and others confirmed with apple that jobs did not have a heart attack and the stock jumped right back up to its opening levels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These kind of reports on the behalf of the citizen journalist are common today.<\/p>\n<p>Thus raise the question <strong>to what extent should this be tolerable and what does journalism stand for and should untrained people be allowed to call them journalists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Media\">Click here for government certification in Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in the digital age. The age where we are not just connected, \u00a0we are digitalized. We have a digital personality, a history and a predicted future. Today we live in the cyber world as much as we do in the real world. Its won&#8217;t be false to say that the line b\/w the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":32367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1405],"tags":[4123,4124,1501,6249],"class_list":["post-32341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-digital-age","tag-digitalization","tag-journalism","tag-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who Should Be Called Journalist - Vskills Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who Should Be Called Journalist? 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