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Why is journalism a "dying" profession?

  • I've looked up many colleges in America and the UK, but only a few seem to offer journalism as a course. I've been told that it is a dying profession. Why?

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    It's because you can get your news faster and in more dynamic formats online, through television and even the radio. Why should I wait around for my weekly or even daily publication when I can get news to the second online, by these publication's websites? Further, journalism was a very bloated, imitation-based field and still is. The AP and Rutgers can report on anything in the world by getting sources via email, phone and Skype. The process has been very streamlined and because of this our local small town newspapers are run by one person. We don't need three newspapers per town each giving their own take on the same basic events. Not that much happens, when you think about it. Even our one remaining major newspaper in the area is unreadable: it reports that same thing you saw in the news on TV the night before and does its endless share of recession sob stories. It pretends like it's watching out for me, the unknowing citizen, by reporting half-facts from the local understaffed state child care center that is doing the best it can despite budget cuts. Elitist bas*****. As someone that came out of college journalism courses, I can tell you that the ones that do exist still teach journalism like it existed in the 80's: I learned to do 1,200 word hard-hitting features when most gigs just want 500 word or less fluff pieces. They pretend like it's still employable. They teach about journalism the way it should be: telling the truth no matter what, digging for reputable facts and being highly informative based on what is important. I graduated to learn the real world of journalism is a place where certain investors can't be ticked off, where celebrity gossip sells and infotainment rules the day (it's not enough to be informative and intelligent, but you have to appeal to our one second attention span culture). Sorry for the length; this is a topic near and dear to my heart and the state of modern journalism is truly pathetic.

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Technology has made the newspaper obsolete. It is dying along with it's subscribers. How many people under 30 even read a paper? The internet is quicker, more spontaneous, less elitist and ultimately, more accountable. Life in real time happens on-line, not it print.

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What we think of as traditional journalism, i.e., newspapers and magazines, is on the decline because advertisers have moved much of their budgets away from print to the internet. As a consequence, fewer journalists are needed. This trend is not expected to change.

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