MC 2000 Chapter : Ch 13 Notes
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Reinventing journalism for the digital millennium: todays journalists. No longer reporting their stories for a mainly passive audience: todays readers. Can give feedback and criticism almost immediately. Shows that journalism has become a public endeavor. The new wave of new journalism : new journalism. The combination of convergent multiple news platforms, immediate audience feedback and criticism, and required proficiency in multimedia technologies. Term was first used in 1960s & 970s, tom wolfe is credited for defining it. Refers to a literary style of news writing typically found in magazines like the. At first style was intensive, truth-telling, subjective, allowing writer to interject opinion (unconventional for news writers at the time: concerns w/ new journalism. Possible loss of journalistic ethics (the set of ethical responsibilities expected of journalists when reporting and writing a story) Responsibilities include: assurance of accuracy, attribution, acknowledgment of sources (aspect of journalism critics of new media methods that are slipping away.
