With the digital revolution, we are seeing a global shift in the collection, processing and dissemination of news.
Dubbed ‘digital natives’, new generations of news consumers are increasingly connected with people and issues throughout the globe.
Such increased connections are breeding a stronger public consciousness, as individuals are no longer confined to the realm of their home community.
As a result, foreign issues which may once have passed unnoticed, or at least of little interest, are now able to be broadcast and exposed in a way in which individuals can not only find a personal connection, but have their own say in the consequences of events.
These factors have resulted in a dramatic development where the passive consumer no longer exists.
Now, individuals have the power to hold news organisations accountable for what they publish or broadcast.
With this power, not only is citizen journalism on the rise as people search for their own answers, but a transparent media scape is demanded.
US-based multinational non-profit news agency, Associated Press is an organisation which claims to be adapting to this shifting media scape.
On their website, the agency detail the multifaceted paradigm of what the hold to be ‘News Values’; this includes accuracy in quotations, not plagiarising, keeping their sources anonymous only in certain circumstances (in an attempt to offer great clarity and accountability, it is presumed), and also, a major value, not participating in the world of ‘chequebook journalism’, among upholding other standards.
In the following video, Alisa Miller, CEO of Public Radio International (PRI), discusses American news coverage.
As the head of an organisation responsible for programs such as ‘The World’, co-produced in association with the BBC World Service, Alisa is sharing the ethos of PRI, which is to curate world news for an American audience, offering – as the tagline proudly proclaims – “a different voice”.
It is organisations such as this which are likely to grow in number, as individuals turn away from mainstream media, or at least search farther afield than the newspaper which lands on the lawn each morning (or iPad, 24/7) in search of news which the value.
P.s. Thankyou Meetup for the image.
P.p.s. Thankyou TED for the video.
