How do you think the Internet is changing journalism in Hong Kong, China or wherever you call home? What do you think that means for your future career as a journalist?
From the readings given, it is clear that we are in a new age. Just as what the article
Go to the web, young journalist
says, “That’s (online advertising) prompting news organizations to realign their resources to focus more on Web journalism.” In such an era, we know that this is an irreversible trend. Commercial advertising on internet is growing at the expense of traditional medias, especially newspapers and TV channels. This is also seen in Hong Kong, AppleDaily, the newspaper with the second largest readership, recorded declines after declines for the number of readers and now the figure is less than 300,000, which is only 3/4 when compared to the figure several years ago. Despite of this, the internet actually is another chance to generate profits, as the advertising there is increasing. Therefore, as a journalist, I think I need to think of how to make full use of the internet resources, and perhaps persuading my colleagues to pay more concerns in this area also, in order to survive.
Besides, as in the other article, the issue is put forward to another stage, not only we need to work with the internet, actually we have to run in a web 2.0 based model, which emphasises more on interactions between journalists and the readers. This is also something I have to beware of once I decide to get myself involved in this industry. It keeps readers in one hand, and also it could probably generate better and more solutions to difficulties, etc. Yet, we have to be sure that we are not letting everything in, just as what Cal Massey commented on this article,
“I don’t fear the Web at all. I find it disheartening. The primary reason I resist mimicking or merging substantially with the Internet community is because so much Internet content is mind-numbing silliness.” This is actually a concern most traditional journists uphold. As a journalist, I think we have to be fair and wise in selecting relevant materials, perhaps screening comments on our articles so as to eliminate the chance of being manipulated by others, or even incorrect information.
And here are the links
How WallStreetJournal sees web 2.0
It is very true indeed that the media world in the western countries is undergoing enormous changes. In the article posted by the blogger working at ApplyDaily, he said that Wall Street Journal is one of those not admitting the media world, unlike those risk management groups is switching to a web 2.0 structure. And he deemed Wall Street Journal as the ‘conservatives’, and further expressing that the Journal is not that convincing in the argument.
Challenges Yahoo meet in the web 2.0 era
But here in the Chinese world this is not the case, at least not now. For instance, at present in Hong Kong, only few publications are emphasising and making full use of the internet resource. The Yahoo group (Chinese) former CEO Xie Wen quitted his job after Yang Zhi Yuan, the establisher of Yahoo refused to shift the Chinese Yahoo site from an integrated searching engine to a web 2.0 based one. It clearly shows the different perspectives those within the business are having. Now Xie is working at Alibaba, another huge search engine in China, which emphasises more on the web 2.0 business. We will see which of the two big companies will survive in the future.
1 response so far ↓
1 Rebecca // Feb 7, 2007 at 4:47 am
Hi Vincent. Is this meant to be your first blogging assignment that was due by Tuesday noon? Let me know if anything was not clear. The assignment was outlined in a follow-up post on the day after class, as well as on the class schedule.
The follow up post was here.
The class schedule outlining assignments is here.
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