The Real Reason Why a Career as a Journalist is Dying

It’s not the money, the need, or the lack of ability to write that is keeping new journalists from reporting about their dream topic. It’s much simpler than that – it’s technology.

We’ve discussed before in many classes throughout our lives that over the years of history, technology has soon taken over as a means of doing jobs. Whether that job was making clothing, or making cars, we have slowly seen machinery take over the once tedious jobs of human beings.

So here were are, in the age of the Internet, and people are still surprised that journalism has been redeveloped online. From the computers they use to the fact that everyone is now considered a journalist in their own right, there really isn’t a need for the investigative journalism that was once prominent to our culture.

Instead of investigating, people are experiencing. Experiential journalism is the new form, and unfortunately for those seeking a journalism degree, all you need to write about things you have experienced is a computer and a memory.

So while I do think that people like the celebrities of journalism (Anderson Cooper, Barbara Walters) are still prominent in the ratings or television networks, the people behind doing all the research aren’t as needed – because like everything else, the computer has taken over.

2 Comments

on “The Real Reason Why a Career as a Journalist is Dying
2 Comments on “The Real Reason Why a Career as a Journalist is Dying
  1. The world has changed a lot since the early days of journalism. The launch of the internet and technology makes it very easy for anyone to get online, publish content and share it with millions. You need to check this canterbury concrete and get more new ways for concrete. This influx of people that can create content at any time has taken away the guarantee once associated with jobs such as journalism.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *