COMM 361-001: Online Journalism

Through the Associated Press, Brad Kalbfeld, who was with us in class today, “saw the world.”

I suppose it’s only appropriate to assume that he knows a thing or two about journalism.

1982: Typewriter = Laptop. After he finished typing up a story, he would read it out into a portable cassette recorder.

(Event) –Filter 1–> (Reporter) –Filter 2–> (Copy Editor) –Filter 3–> (Section Editor/Show Producer) –Filter 4–> (Managing Editor) –Filter 5–> (Reader/Viewer)

In the old days, the viewer didn’t know what they were missing out on — now, there’s so much information floating out there, considering that anyone can be a Reporter, the Reader/Viewer is in charge.

• People that would’ve never been able to be heard can now be heard — “they have voice where they’ve never had voice before.”

“YOU are the new face of journalism,” Klein said to the class. “Journalism doesn’t look like us anymore.”

There’s more pressure on professional journalists than ever before due to the rise of citizen journalism.

“News used to be a one-way proposition,” Kalbfeld said. Not so much anymore!

“It’s participatory.”

Investigative journalism, though, is special. It will get you noticed because the average Joe isn’t going to do it. It’s more intensive work.

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