Now that the new media seems to give us information anyway and anyhow we want it, what happens to the practice of traditional media?

1. Lami Idakwo

2. Who is a journalist?
A journalist is someone who collects and
disseminates information about current events
,people, information, trends and issues.
“Anybody who wants to be”- Jacob Weisberg

3. Revolution

5. Consequences
User- generated content
Communication across borders/boundaries
Speedy communication
Freedom of speech
Active citizenship/democracy
No/ little gate keeping
Truth/objectivity/fairness
Libel/slander
Copyright/plagiarism
Grammatical constructs
Strange business model

6. A case for the geeks & untrained
They understand the technology
They create new technologies that make
communication easier.
They have access to generating content as they wish
They might be naturally gifted

7. A case against the geeks &
untrained
They do not understand the heart of the journalist
They do not know the ethics of journalism
They do not know the art of journalism

8. What do we do?

9. My suggestions
Work with the new technologies. Remember, “video
killed the radio star”.
Work with the geeks
Work with the untrained(CNN iReport)
Set standards by practicing the standards
Accept that things are changing and get innovative
Freelancing on various platforms

10. What has been done
Blogs e.g. The Huffington post
Online newspapers e.g. WSJ
Google news
Social media e.g. twitter updates, facebook notes, “ I
read businessday” .
RSS feeds
Freelancing( online columnist)

11. Nigeria and the new media
Nigerians love to talk
Nigerians love to give opinions( especially with
anonymity)
Nigerians love trends
Nigerians are all over the world
Maybe the opportunity to leap from 3rd
world to
developed?

12. Websites/blogs to visit
http://www.Saharareporters.com
http://www.nairaland.com
httpwww.bellanaija.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://mashable.com
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
http://www.boundless.org (Christian youth)
http://madaboutnewmedia.blogspot.com:

13. Maybe anyone can be a journalist, but we don’t need
journalists, we need excellent journalists.

14. Thank you.