Digital newsroom presentation

This blog is for the assessed presentation that all of this blogging has been leading up to and answers the question of how the digital newsroom is reported, and defined.

Despite so much comment, it could also be argued that the digital news room is more objective than the traditional mediums. In traditional news mediums, to achieve complete objectivity, it is almost impossible because it would require more than just one reporter’s version of a story, as Lee Sigelman says in News: A Reader (1999:86).

The digital newsroom, however, allows for this to happen and blogging acts as a platform for every side of a story to be projected equally, especially with almost unlimited space and the opportunity to link to other people’s blogs

In my blog titled ‘Is the era of the seven-goal thriller over?’ , I linked to a blog by Starting Eleven, a blogger and ex-sports writer in America, to give his point of view and use it to support a couple of my own points. Likewise, he has linked back to my blog on his own blog.

This makes the digital newsroom a democratic tool, in which everyone is free to give their own view on a subject, and again this promotes the "everyone’s a journalist" culture.

The way that data can be gathered by the use of polls in the most random fashion and displayed so much more quickly than on other mediums is another way that the digital newsroom is more democratic than other mediums and pushes the information out more quickly.

My blog demonstrates how the virtuous circle works with one person sending out information, which is then used by another, who then uses the information again at a more developed stage.

This is further exemplified, and it is shown that the digital newsroom is unique, in that a blogger can let others gather their information for them, instead of going out onto the street and doing it manually. For example, in a blog about Dwain Chambers, I was able to link to a piece of multimedia that LBC radio's James O'Brien had done without having to take time to create that multimedia myself. Information comes to the blogger in polls as well, as used a couple of times on my blog.

One very regular blogger is The Guardian's Barney Ronay, whose football blog receives lots of comment and sparks debate. His blog also receives praise and criticism, sometimes people questioning his facts or view of the game. In this way, the readership contributes to the editing process so that Barney knows what positive aspects of his blog to maintain and what to change or improve upon.

As a result of instantaneous comment and almost infinite space and the opportunity for everyone to contribute, the digital newsroom is the fastest, most objective and most democratic of the news mediums, allowing for healthier debate of interests and issues.