For my major project I wanted to focus on the topic of how the online world has changed the landscape of local and regional news, namely newspapers. I’m yet to narrow my field to find a story, so more research is needed. I do know I want to aim it at the Walkley magazine, which has an audience of journalists.
One interesting article I found online suggests that as print is a ‘push’ medium, the role of print articles is to lure a reader to read something they may not be particularly interested in. This is different to the online world, which is considered a ‘pull’ medium: users seek out the information they want to read, therefore being a more ‘niche’ medium. Although this is the case, online also contributes to gathering an audience.
One idea is to focus on the coverage of events in print vs online, and what issues this may create or solve in the areas of bias, widening an audiences education on the topic and allowing the audiences viewpoint to change.
If there are differences in the above areas, what would be the impact of the slow decline of newspapers in the Western world? How would this change society and therefore the way that culture, economy and political agendas are changed?
In Universities, journalism students are taught technological ways of gathering and producing news as they’re at the forefront of this change. But should this be the focus, or should we be learning the impacts of how writing a story online is different to print?
Altogether, does the change in medium ultimately change the way a story is portrayed, or even the way a story is received??
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