Comments on the Sanef media audit:a new news culture is facing the media and journalism educators: the time to act is now!

Autor: Lynette Steenveld, Danie Jordaan, Herman Wasserman, P. Eric Louw, Lizette Rabe, Stephen Quinn, J. Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Robert L. Stevenson, John J. Williams, Gert van Rooyen, Mark Deuze, Pedro Diederichs, Doug Newsom, George Claassen, Susan Tyler Eastman
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies. 23:87-151
ISSN: 1942-0773
0256-0054
DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2002.10798726
Popis: This omnibus article deals with some of the comments received by the authors of the Sanef media audit (see p. 11) of the edition of Ecquid Novi). As Mark Deuze, one of the commentators puts it: The threats and challenges to contemporary journalism have caused scholars, publics, journalists, and thus journalism educators, to reconsider their approaches, definitions, roles, and function in community and society. Widely recognized as the four main changes or challenges facing education programmes in journalism are: the multicultural society; the rise and establishment of infotainment genres; the convergence of existing and new media technologies (cf. multimedia); and the internationalization or ‘glocalization’ of the media and journalism playing field. The four mentioned challenges and developments could be seen as reflected in the 2002 Sanef audit. The report particularly stresses the ‘new culture’ within which journalists are expected to do their work. This is a culture determined by fragmented audiences; ...
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