To the future

10 years ago when you wanted to find out what was happening in the world, you would go to your local newsagents and buy a newspaper. Just one decade later and we are talking about the end of the newspaper. This is due to how the digital newsroom has grown, with websites able to post news as it happens and to show videos and audio it gives the consumer something which newspapers cannot compete with. However the newspaper still has its’ traditions, its’ usually high quality reporting, depending on which newspaper you buy, and the simple fact that you can read the news in your comfy armchair instead of staring at a computer screen. The future for us as journalists is an exciting one. The digital aspect of journalism gives us more mediums and avenues that we can venture down, for instance we can write an article and post it onto our own blog, then using social networks we can advertise our blog for free and get more people to view our work. The digital tools available to us as journalists allows us to be multi skilled and more employable. For broadcast journalists the development of the digital newsroom is a very positive step. From recording podcasts to uploading our videos to the internet it has never been easier to report on what is happening around you as it happens! The downside to this is that it is the same for everybody, which means that if you can upload your properly researched and well written articles, another person could write a badly researched and badly written article at the same time, meaning you are almost in competition for people to see your story.