Every journalist and reporter must equip themselves with skills and master information technology to keep up with the trend of multimedia journalism.
Challenges from social networks
About 10 years ago, the press was proud to be the "secretary of the times", providing comprehensive information on all aspects of social life to readers. However, with the strong development of information technology, social networking platforms have attracted a huge number of users. The social networking environment is like a miniature world where each user can interact directly. The convenience of social networking unintentionally brings a lot of unverified information, even fake news, with a dizzying spread speed.
The current trend of accessing information has also shifted from newspapers to social networks, posing challenges for journalists - that is, competition for information. This requires press agencies and each journalist and reporter to play an important role in providing official, timely information and orienting public opinion.
Therefore, digital transformation in press agencies has become an inevitable trend to build convergent, multi-platform, multi-service, and multi-media communication models to meet current information needs. Social networks are an information "matrix" but also an opportunity for each journalist and reporter to exploit information sources, answer questions that the online community is interested in to guide public opinion, and affirm the role of journalism in the digital age.
At the same time, each press agency can take advantage of social networks to spread official information, fight against fake information, and bring readers the most reliable mainstream information in society.
Steadfast in the information "matrix"
The most important thing is that every journalist and reporter must maintain ethics and social responsibility for their profession to create quality journalistic works that meet the needs of readers in the digital age.
With the strong and diverse development of new technology platforms, the core of which is digital technology, especially the era of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, especially the explosion of information on social networking platforms, many opportunities are created for the press, especially updating current news and providing sources of information for the press to exploit.
However, the current information explosion also poses many challenges for the press. To survive and develop, newsrooms, with journalists and reporters as the core, must change their thinking and approach to adapt to the new era.
According to reporter Le Duc ( Long An Newspaper and Radio and Television Station), social networks have provided a lot of timely information to the press. Cases and incidents that previously depended on the information sources of each reporter and journalist to discover, even a lot of missing information, are now almost all updated by social networks.
However, unlike mainstream media, in the social media environment, anyone can post information, which unintentionally or intentionally causes inaccurate, unverified information, even fake news to be spread and disseminated on social media, causing confusion among the public. “Therefore, in addition to exploiting information from social media, journalists must equip themselves with knowledge and skills to prevent and avoid fake news.
In the process of exploiting information on social networks, the most important thing is to verify information from the authorities. This is also the biggest difference between information from press agencies and information on social networks to bring official information to readers" - reporter Le Duc affirmed.
In addition to exploiting information from social networks, journalists must equip themselves with knowledge and skills to prevent and avoid fake news. In the process of exploiting information on social networks, the most important thing is to verify information from competent authorities. This is also the biggest difference between information from press agencies and information on social networks to bring official information to readers. Reporter Le Duc |
As a person who regularly uses social networks, considering social networks as an environment for exploiting news sources, reporter Huynh Du (Ho Chi Minh City Law Newspaper) also believes that the development of digital technology not only changes the way the press industry operates but also reshapes the role of journalists and reporters. If reporters and journalists only sit and surf social networks to find topics and content, their "pen" will gradually become callous, lacking creativity in journalistic works, and even easily getting caught in the "matrix" of fake news.
Recently, artificial intelligence has been providing great support for journalism activities. However, if AI is abused in journalism, journalists and reporters will lose their personal style when presenting their journalism works. “Technology is very important, but to apply technology to journalism works, each journalist and reporter must be equipped with skills and master information technology to keep up with the trend of multimedia journalism. The most important thing is that each journalist must maintain ethics and social responsibility for the profession to create quality journalism works, meeting the needs of readers in the digital age” - reporter Huynh Du said./.
If reporters and journalists just sit around surfing social networks to find topics and content, their "pen" will gradually become callous, lacking creativity in their journalistic work, and even easily getting caught up in the "matrix" of fake news. Reporter Huynh Du |
Perseverance
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