This lecture is the very first lecture of JOUR1111 program, the lecturer, Dr Bruce Redman gave us 13 pages course profile which is very useful, especially, the learning activities summary. Dr Redman, then, gave us a presentation that outlines Journalism and JOUR1111. He told us the definition of Journalism, its challenges and its significance in modern world; followed by, the schedule of lectures, assessments' overview, and course outline.
I noted down two important parts of this first lecture. The first one is the definition of Journalism: telling factual stories. Journalism is a media for public and everything presented in media can shape people's thought and behaviour. It is, therefore, very important that journalist tells factual stories with the purpose to avoid confusion or worse, misleading public.
The second important part is current challenges of journalism. In this new era that highly depends on technology, newspaper is rumoured to be dying. Contributed by citizen journalism in which news spread rapidly and freely through Twitter or facebook, newspapers have to face the harsh reality. Moreover, the public believes that journalism has no ethics, by the raging trend of Papparazzi, has put journalist in difficult position. Lastly, despite all those challenges, public demands journalism to be entertaining in presenting the news. It can be said that journalists have to be creative in order to survive or to overcome those challenges.
I was actually a little bit worried when Dr Redman explain about the challenges because in 3 years the technology will be even more advanced. I do not think that I can be creative enough to face the challenges, however, during the next 3 years I believe that I will work something out to survive in this competition.
To the reader of this post,
Thank you for reading this post and have a good day :)
Shierine Wangsa Wibawa
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