The online journalism diploma module at JOMEC
Blogging the lectures: Richard Burton
At last, a bit of realism!
While I may not have been with him on all counts, in general I left Richard Burton's lecture with a great feeling of relief that I was not in fact, going mad. Burton - no doubt because of his old school print background - was unafraid to point out that online journalism has not yet taken over the world.
People still read the paper on the train. There are still a seperate desk in every newsroom where content is adapted for the web. Convergence has not yet been achieved, and most reporters still go out with only a notebook.
This to me, is common sense. But I feel it has been lacking from some of our previous online lectures. I had an instant messaging conversation with my mother last week where I had to teach her how to copy and paste a line of text into her address bar. From that perspective, some of the lecturers we have heard talk do seem to be coming from a rather closed world that isn't neccessarily in touch with the habits of the everyday consumer. We write for the man in the street, not just the man who is at the head of the technological revolution.
While I may not have been with him on all counts, in general I left Richard Burton's lecture with a great feeling of relief that I was not in fact, going mad. Burton - no doubt because of his old school print background - was unafraid to point out that online journalism has not yet taken over the world.
People still read the paper on the train. There are still a seperate desk in every newsroom where content is adapted for the web. Convergence has not yet been achieved, and most reporters still go out with only a notebook.
This to me, is common sense. But I feel it has been lacking from some of our previous online lectures. I had an instant messaging conversation with my mother last week where I had to teach her how to copy and paste a line of text into her address bar. From that perspective, some of the lecturers we have heard talk do seem to be coming from a rather closed world that isn't neccessarily in touch with the habits of the everyday consumer. We write for the man in the street, not just the man who is at the head of the technological revolution.
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