Journalism and Ethics

Woodhead (2010) points out that, there is big distance between the information which has been received from public and curious journalist compare to those new and information which has been received from certain journalist. 

In my opinion, journalists have their own duty, which is to send a piece of news with a good evidence for users to believe in their particular news. Goode (2009) points out that, majority of the journalist has been influence with the reliability of news through Internet. This means that, the Internet is the only place where it is not been controlled by any governmental organization and it is the only place where they have the ability to accessed without charges. 

According to Devereux (2005), nowadays, majority of journalist are preferred to publish their news stories online. This is because online news sources and information are mainly focus on accuracy rather than timeliness. In addition, Tsfati (2010) mentioned that, for majority of the people around the world the Internet is their most important source of news and they trust the information which has been obtained from different websites. 

Sundar (2000) points out that, in most of the time journalist believe that the Internet had an extensive impact on their job performances. However, they have more independency in order to publishing a story; they are no longer waiting for government decision for publishing news. More important thing is that by new feature of online posting such as blogs they have the ability to publish their stories which public will never received in offline printed media. Of course, beside this all advantages, the reliability of sources is one of the main concerns of the Internet users.

The users desire sincerely and creditability from that particular news through medias. Likewise, not all but some of the blogs through the Internet are reliable from people’s point of view. This is because those blogs are not written by ordinary people, they have been written by those educated journalist. Journalist as interpreters and peacekeepers are responsible to receive information and deliver it into the people’s home desktop with accurate report on the news. Besides, majority of the journalist when they want to publish a story on their blogs, that particular news will be cited with proper references from different research journals. 

References

Devereux, E 2005, ‘Understanding The Media,’ London, SAGE Publications Ltd.

Goode, L 2009, ‘Social News, Citizen Journalism and Democracy,’ Journalism, vol.11, no.8, pp.1287-1305.

Sundar, S 2000, ‘Multimedia Effects on Processing and Perception of Online News: a Study of Picture, Audio, and Video Downloads,’ Journalism, vol.77.no.3, pp. 480-499.

Tsfati, Y 2010, ‘Online News Exposure and trust in the Mainstream Media: Exploring Possible Associations,’ New Media & Society, vol.51, no.1, pp.22-42.

Woodhead, J 2010, ‘New Media, Old Journalism,’ updated on 21th July 2010, viewed 11th November 2010,<http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/35380.html#>