According to Wikipedia a journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.
Are newspapers redefining what counts as a writer, are we moving to a local press where the content is written by local people and not professional paid writers. Are we moving to a true free press model written by people in their spare time effectively working for the papers for free, producing their content, reducing their costs and then selling you a printed version of your thoughts?
I recently stumbled upon a movie which has been around a while outlining where the internet came from, the current history and the main players and then speculation on where we could end up, including the media wars and hyper local content, video, music, traffic news, have a look and let us know your thoughts.
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Even more recently Johnston Press and the Press Association have agreed a three-year deal which will see the news agency supply multimedia assets for the regional newspaper group’s websites, why? Is this a move to reduce yet again the number of journalist. Are they missing the point of what made their websites unique in the first place.
Under the agreement, which will begin next month, the news agency will supply text, pictures and video clips to the editors at Johnston Press’s websites, including Scotsman.com, YorkshirePost.co.uk and the Lancashire Evening Post’s lep.co.uk.
PA will supply text, video, stills and interactive graphics as individual assets linked by meta data, allowing local online editors to take only those elements that they want in order to combine with their own reports or assemble into unique online packages.
It is the first time PA has supplied online content in this way. Under its existing arrangements, several newspaper groups receive finished multimedia packages, such as three-minute presenter-led video news bulletins.
Once again, let us know your thoughts…..