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Studies & Degrees in Broadcast Journalism

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An Asian journalism expert once said that the future of news print publishing is dim but the future of journalism is brighter than ever. In the days of our great-great grandparents news gathering for reporters meant running around their beat with pen and paper. If they’re lucky an analog camera may be included in their repertoire. Not only that, the public would also have to wait for the next day’s issue in order to find out what exactly has happened. Now because of technological innovation we now receive the latest news updates anywhere anytime thanks to Broadcast Journalism. Since reporters now have the luxury of digital cameras and recorders news gathering and dissemination has now become a fast paced business. Broadcast Journalism basically revolves around three electronic mediums, television, radio, and the Internet being the newest form.

The oldest and still the most dependable form is radio broadcasting where we would hear the latest updates on the radio and where the newscaster reads the latest news submitted in by their field reporters. A common trend on news radio would be the commentaries, where credible commentators discuss specific issues and provide common insight for the audience. Some programs even let their audience voice out their opinions on-air by accepting calls or messages.

Today it’s clearly obvious that television broadcasting has taken the most popular spot. Where news anchors report on camera the latest happenings. But unlike radio news reporting which runs 24/7 on designated AM frequencies typical television news broadcast is commonly divided into three segments; morning, noon and the most coveted spot of evening primetime. The foremost advantage of the two above print journalism is that they are able to arm their field reporters with broadcasting equipment ergo the incident that is being reported can be seen and heard on the spot and that the real reporters of the incident are now given a chance to be known by the public unlike print where all the reporter can do is put his name at the end of the report.

As innovative as television and radio are, none comes to the level of broadcasting as the Internet that literally gives meaning to the word broadcasting. Originally an agricultural term where one plants crops by simply throwing seeds into the air. The Internet with its unlimited level of access to the public has become the most progressive media tool especially for journalists. Simply because of it’s high level of speed in which information is passed and received. Now a new form of news casting is emerging under the name “webcasting”. It basically follows the same format as television news casting where we would see the anchor person reporting the news on the spot. Only this time one can watch the story’s progression online. But as the old ones say; innovation walks hand in hand with destruction. The slow death of print publishing due to the rise of the Internet was expected and even welcomed. However the amount of information disseminated on the web was clearly unexpected, creating a vacuum of unreliable reports of just about everything therefore creating the newest form of tabloid.