The Changing Face of News gathering Due to Technology

Reposted from April 30, 2017

The definition of news gathering is of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting news, according to dictionary.com. One of the ways technology has changed the work of communicators is by crowd sourcing and news gathering. The crowd or audience can add a location or topic to a social media post with a hashtag (#) to create a story trending and a chain of posts connected, providing information for journalists. Crowd sourcing gives the people a voice in the news gathering, according to Kolodzy (2013, p. 38).
The audience is going to get closer to the story “is going to get closer to the story, get closer to us and we need to keep pace with the way the audience expectations are changing in terms of how we are reporting the news but also how we are bringing people to the conversation and reporting back what they are telling us as well, according to Marrouch (2014).
The crowd sourcing provides communicators a faster way to have more information for a story and numerous possible sources, and multimedia for a story if they are not on location. 

The training influenced by the crowd sourcing is fact checking where the tweet or Facebook post of information came from or how that account received the information, how to use the tools like Geofeedia, FotoFrensics, and Topsy, says Marrouch. Learning the new social platforms that the audiences are using besides Twitter and Facebook as well.

References:
Kolodzy, J. (2013). Practicing Convergence Journalism. New York, NY: Routledge.

Marrouch, R. (2014, June 23). The changing face of newsgathering in the social and digital age. Retrieved from reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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