Skye Doherty, a print journalist who has worked around the world for various media stations and newspapers (including one run by Rupert Murdoch) was a guest speaker at my lecture today. She was full of knowledge and wit – just as any good journalist is. Although Skye expressed her love for print, she also acknowledged the fact that journalism is well and truly advancing with technology and is now, predominantly online. She then discussed further what the creation of an online newspaper entails, and how much more it enables the journalist to achieve.
I found an article which Skye had posted online; the quote she included really reinforces her comments today regarding online journalism…
“Anyway, do you really think saving newspapers is just a matter of putting your old crap on a new device? … The iPad isn’t about saving newspapers. It’s about inventing new ways of telling stories, using a whole new language — one that we can’t even imagine right now...” (Steve Jobs).
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