The vocabulary is changing and becoming more loaded. Print and TV journalists are now called legacy media. As opposed to being part of the expanding digital dawn. New digital properties emerged over the last year and claimed mind space. Indian start-ups of international media sites such as Quartz, Scroll and The Huffington Post, India Today’s DailyO.in, Raghav Bahl’s new venture Quitillion Media, and at one end of the conceptual spectrum, P. Sainath’s People’s Archive of Rural India. Other ventures helmed by legacy media journalists who are out of jobs will see the light of day this year if the funding comes their way. Journalism production and consumption now have a digital divide that is also partly a generation divide. The vocabulary is different. One side creates hashtags and podcasts and talks of tweet storms, selfies and apps. It goes to Buzzfeed to see what’s new, and attempts journalism that is data-driven using a variety of Internet tools. It is partial to spoofs which hit home harder than mere facts or straight comment. Read more at: livemint/Opinion/lpI2dS6vXjhlwOHNYFWvbJ/Journalisms-tech-divide.html?utm_source=copy
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:50:19 +0000
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