New Age Journalism podcast: How will journalism change in the next 10 years?

November 18, 2021

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By Noah Hayden, Emmanuel Christian and Chris Hirons

 

Virginia Tech students Noah Hayden, Emmanuel Christian and Chris Hirons host the New Age of Journalism podcast. With the ever-changing field of journalism and convergence of all the fields of communication, the three discuss what journalism students will be learning in 10 years. 

 

Ten years ago, social media was just making its presence known in the field, news companies were still figuring out how to use paywalls and local newspapers were just beginning their start of dying out.

 

Virtual and Zoom interviews were less common, if one was conducted virtually, it would be by phone. Journalists didn’t need to know how to code websites, rather they were able to pay consultants or a website designer. And artificial intelligence editors, like Grammarly, didn’t exist.

 

Now, with everything that changed during the pandemic, more reporters are working from home and conducting interviews virtually, according to the International Journalists’ Network. For more cost effective ways, students will likely have to learn how to properly conduct an interview over Zoom, while also using sites like Grammarly as newsrooms continue to cut down on employees.

 

For Grammarly, it can act as a copy editor in a newsroom, reducing the need to pay for newsrooms to pay multiple copy editors, while paying $140 per year for sites like Grammarly. So, students will likely need to learn how to use those A.I. sites.

 

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