Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Barack Obama, Flickr, Guardian, Interactive/citizen journalism, Online
Journalism is becoming ever more interactive with its audience and I was interested to see this on the Guardian’s website. The paper has invited its readers to post their messages for America’s next president, Barack Obama, on a page the paper set up on Flickr.
Here a couple of examples of what people had to say:
I think this is a good example of allowing interaction between news and its readers and this is what the future of journalism is all about.
Often we (journalists and the news reading public) think that other people just do not care about what is going on in the world. The Flickr site with its pages of messages is another proof- along with the much viewed election coverage- that people do care about what is going on at home and abroad and if given a platform will happily share their views.
I’ve just been given a lecture by Roy Greenslade of the Guardian, entitled “What is journalism for?” In the lecture he seemed to take a rather cynical approach to the press of today and what he called “is” journalism, rather than “ought” journalism; what journalism has become rather than what journalists strive to make it.
