BROADCAST JOURNALISM

JOURNALISM

 INTRODUCTION

Broadcasting Journalism is the act of transmitting audio  visual content through a communication medium, such as radio, television, or film. In the study of mass communication, broadcasting refer to the practical study of how to produce communication content, such as how to produce a television or radio program. When broadcasting through radio and television, the entertainment and information can be distributed by wire and wireless to other radio stations, television stations and network.

Journalism is the collection, verification, presentation, and editing of news for presentation through the media, in this sense, refers to the study of journalism involves looking at how news is produced, and how it is disseminated to the public through mass media outlet such as newspapers, news channel, radio station, TV station, and more recently e-readers and smartphones.

Journalism can also be defined as the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information.

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          Mass communications – is the study of how people and entities relay information through mass media to large segment of population at the same time.

Mass communication is a branch of social science that falls under the larger umbrella of communication studies.

Broadcast journalism – is a type of news reporting presented to the public electronically, i.e. by radio or TV instead of being published in newspaper. Media in broadcast journalism include television, radio and internet.

The relationship between mass communication and broadcast communication

Mass communication and the broadcast communication are focused on the delivery of timely and engaging news information to the general public. 

Mass communication is a field of study concerned with the dissemination of news, information, entertainment and advertising through various media platforms, including newspapers, magazines, new media, television, film and radio.

Broadcast communication is a track within mass communication that pertains to video and audio content for use on a variety of plat forms. 

How the journalism changed 

Like the printing press, the telegraph, television, and other forms of media that came before it, the internet has not only changed the methods and purpose of journalism, but also peoples perception of news media. 

The two (2) largest changes in modern journalism strike at the heart of traditional notions surrounding journalist and news companies are:

1.  The rise of the blogger and user-based journalism has become immensely popular among both new and old media companies, a change that has drastically altered the definition of journalist.
2. The linked nature of the internet has given rise to content aggregators like google news or the huffington post that no longer rely on individual journalists to provide news, but instead depend on their ability to gather and collect information into a single location where users can access it together.

How new media is affecting traditional journalism

1. Information technology is changing the face of media practice and journalism in general in the world today and Nigeria is not left behind. The increasing impacts of new media in the dissemination of information have given room to an increase in both professional and amateur journalism.

2. Today, the media is not limited to the radio, television and the print alone. The internet has created whole new platforms for the dissemination of news information within minutes. With the click of button, news and information can be posted on facebook, twitter, you tube etc. this media makes used of videos, audios, and pictures and can disseminate information faster than any news papers or television house.

3. Things are no longer the same for traditional forms of media in the world and Nigeria since global attention is now on internet reportage of news and event.
4. It is the universal source of information for millions of people at home, school, work, it is actually the most democratic of the mass media with a very low investment, anyone can have a web page on the internet; almost anyone can reach a very large audience, directly, fast and economically no matter the size or location.
5. The upsurge in the use of the internet has also given rise to new media platforms, which have become increasingly popular. Leading global news networks such as BBC and CNN now replay clips of non-professional eyewitness account of events take from either youtube or twitter, today, a media organization without an online presence is a huge local champion.
6. The internet has given room to a new form of media freedom in information dissemination that has not been seen some few years ago.

7.  News coverage of the demonstration by traditional media has also been criticized. Many Nigerians covered the protests themselves through social media tools.