More than news - will it be intellectual journalism in the future?

On the occasion of the 99th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day, I took out the book Beyond News by Mitchell Stephens, published by Tre Publishing House, to ponder. Each time I read it, I have a different feeling about journalism, about the future model of journalism in the digital transformation era. A book that journalists, journalism students... should definitely read.

Mitchell Stephens is a journalist and the chair of the Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism at New York University. In 2009, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center, writing his dissertation on the future of journalism. Before the Internet developed global connections, journalism was not only a “fourth estate” that shaped public opinion, but also a thriving business. Newspapers sold both breaking news and images and advertising space. Now, information from social networks flows on smartphones quickly and in overwhelming quantities, mostly for free. Is the role of traditional journalism coming to an end? Mitchell Stephens argues that journalism must instead provide original, challenging insights rather than just a little more of the same old stories… and he proposes a new standard: Intellectual Journalism, a mixture of exclusive, bold, investigative reporting with informed, interpretive, and even opinionated coverage.

More Than News is Mitchell Stephens's original, sometimes critical examination of contemporary journalism, both traditional print and online, and finds inspiration for effective and ambitious insights in examples from America's giant newspapers. With his erudition, he argues for a more valuable and ambitious journalism. In the book, he mines history, drawing on impressive anecdotes about the failure of conventional reporting. He makes the case that interpreting the news can save journalism and professional journalists; he explains why journalism must move from the traditional 5Ws that have guided journalism today to the 5Ls of what he calls intellectual journalism: informed, intelligent, interpretive, insightful, and illuminating.

Ideas that challenge the traditional are always controversial and not easily accepted. But life without such ideas that dare to break the current, it would be impossible to develop.

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