The Future of Journalism

As Journalism as we know it begins to change, in order to stay ahead of the continually changing consumer economy, we must be innovative in order to create a successful company/news channel. To create a news company or system, we must look at current trends that represent what our consumers want. Then, we must create an idea or prototype that will display our thoughts about how the company will distribute its information.

Paper publishing has slowly but surely faded away in the rank of occurring journalism. The internet has taken over publishing. Online journalism has allowed access to information at any given time and it has allowed us to "choose" the stories that we pay for and the stories that we read. At almost any given data search base, you are required to pay for an article once you past the abstract. Some will allow you to pay for a single article, while others will require you to subscribe to the company. This is becoming more prominent in journalistic companies as well.

Journalism is turning to the internet and the internet is being placed into cars. Google is creating a self-driving car which could allow for a completely new mode of transportation and the amount of things that could be accomplished while "driving" in your car. During Journalism class, a group of students and I were put to the challenge of creating a new system to display journalistic news to consumers. We immediately thought of the the self-driving car. We began to experiment with ideas on how we could display news in the cars and how it is displayed currently. Together, we made small changes to the traditional entertainment system in a car and that led to a very new operating system.

At first, we recognized that we could display information on the windshield of the car because it would not be necessary to see the road ahead. This information helped us to create a panel of options that would appear on the windshield that would be large, at eye level, and extremely accessible. The "screen" would be operated much like a television. It is controlled by the center counsel which is a touch screen. By pressing the silver arrows, you are able to "thumbs up (show me more) or thumbs down (show me less)". By pressing the side arrows, the news that is being displayed will switch.

We then looked at how important social media is becoming to America. We decided that in order to satisfy the wants of consumers we would need to create an "applications" program. In this program, you are able to use the arrows to navigate through the sites. By using the side arrows, you are able to access multiple sites and by using the up/down arrows, you are able to scroll through the news feeds. This program would also allow you to play games on your counsel which would then appear on your windshield.

Could this be the future of journalism? I'm not really sure, but I do know that journalism is changing and that in order for it to survive, journalists must create new ways for it to live. Whether this is the way that journalism can survive, it still does not change the fact that journalism is constantly changing and adapting to consumer wants and needs.