JOURNALIST IN THE AGE OF INTERNET

By Phillip Bugobora,
Journalist in the age of the internet, this was the main topic of workshop which taking place at TGDLC, IFM building in dare s salaam.

The workshop started yesterday which will be run for five days from Monday to Friday this week. The participants are editors and trainers from deferent media.

Peik Johansson started by teaching the participants on how to blog the websites, he trained the participant by using a quote of the speech of Rupert Murdoch to the American society of newspaper editors.

He asked the participants to read the the whole speech and come up with their own comment concerning to the topic which says "journalist in the age of internet”

“ That is manifestly not true of the internet. And all of our papers are living proof. I venture to say that not one newspaper represented in this room lacks a website. Yet how many of us can honestly say that we are taking maximum advantage of those websites to serve our readers, to strengthen our businesses, or to meet head-on what readers increasingly say is important to them in receiving their news?

“Despite this, I’m still confident of our future, both in print and via electronic delivery platforms. The data may show that young people aren’t reading newspapers as much as their predecessors, but it doesn’t show they don’t want news. In fact, they want a lot of news, just faster news of a different kind and delivered in a different way

“They want news that speaks to them personally, that affects their lives. They don’t just want to know how events in the Mid-east will affect the presidential election; they want to know what it will mean at the gas-pump. They don’t just want to know about terrorism, but what it means about the safety of their subway line, or whether they’ll be sent to Iraq. And they want the option to go out and get more information, or to seek a contrary point of view.” Said some of the Murdoch’s speech.
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