Participatory journalism

ments required by the assignments reporters on the ground. ENG van crews, editors, technicians, and the site director see to it that the stories

The job of the journalist (especially the investigative journalist) is to gather the truth about situations and explain that to an audience in a clear and succinct way.

This is very important: It’s not the responsibility of the reporter

but simply to bring all of the related facts to the public’s attention and . Once a news source is suspected of having “a all of their reporting becomes suspect.

Investigative journalism pinpoints the journalist’s job in uncovering the facts that were being successfully hidden from exposure and bring these facts to the public’s attention. In this watchdogs of a democratic society. The same goes for commentators and public affairs programs.

*** Broadcast news today is a highly competitive business. The two Rs are most important: Ratings and can translate into high ratings and, of course, ratings will eventually trans another is still the name of the game. Glitzy presentation through the use screens, futuristic digital set designs and 3-dimensional lighting system

Also, a field correspondent that and professional prestige, and even awards. And that goes for news presenters and news programs as well.

With this in mind, there is now pressure for reporters to sometimes or decorum that often result in the brazen image of reporters resorting

Dynamic changes in the nature Whereas before, news videos were news organizations, today, because of social media and the preponderance of personal cameras of smartphones, news events are often covered by a multiple citizen journalists and disseminated in advance of the mainstream media through the web. Where the major news media used to support law enforcement’s version of events, the public now may be presented with

Equally disturbing is the participa - trolls cast some unwarranted doubt on traditional news media coverage.

web-based platforms to achieve certain defamatory political innuendoes - tion in focus.

One of the reasons that news is reluctant to give interviews is because facts have been reported wrongly or distorted.

Once a news source is suspected of and all of their reporting becomes suspect.

*** I used to belong to the “old news I remember that we always remind our newsgathering team these few important but basic points when writing news stories.

.Interview those who claim to be that they really were in the midst of the event covered.

.Use a second source to double - ing or may be in doubt—especially if it could put any personality or organization in a bad light.

- tion of names phonetically.

address is valid and current.

person being interviewed meant and discard those unrelated blurbs.

To conclude, the ugly part of news organizations is that reporters are an investigation when the outcome could affect political power or cor coin is to order the demolition of anything that will get in the way of - ous bottom lines. The independence of the people in any news organization will never be secure when the transactions of their owners is concealed from them.

“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must 1908-1965)

faith to all.