Current and Ethical Issues in the field of Journalism

            Current and Ethical Issues in the field of Journalism Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name October 31, 2018     Outline         I.            Introduction

1. Overview of current and Ethical Issues

     II.            Current Issues

1. Decrease in Demand for Print Journals (Rogers, 2017)
2. Rise of Fake News (Ball, 2018)

                                                              i.      Distrust in social media                                                             ii.      Decrease of Credibility of Journalists   III.            Ethical Issues

1. Breach of Privacy (Gross, 2017)
2. Use of Journalism for Propaganda Setting (EthicalJournalismNetwork.Org, n.d.; Marty, 2018)

  IV.            Conclusion                   Introduction             As compared to the past few decades, the practice of journalism has exponentially increased in the past few years due to the advent of different technological innovations that made communication of ideas much easier. Today, almost everyone, professionals or not, could obtain information through the Web, synthesize it based on their own thoughts, and publish it on their own social media platforms. On the one hand, this has increased the diversity of opinions and ideas as it removes exclusivity from the hands of professionals. On the other hand, however, this gave birth to different issues and risks that were once under control by professional networks that regulates the flow of information among the masses. In this paper, some of these issues in the field of journalism would be discussed in further detail. Specifically, two current and two ethical issues would analyzed based as to how they affect the journalism practice these days. Additionally, the sources that would be used in this study would be critically studied based on different aspects. Current Issues Decrease in Demand for Print Journals             Summary             The rise of Digital Media (particularly Social Media) in the past few decades has led to the increase in the usage of digital means of reading and a decrease in the consumption of print media. Consequently, this led to millions of dollars of losses and numerous cases of layoffs in many news outlets all over the world (Rogers, 2017). Yet, contrary to popular beliefs that print media is about to die, some trends have shown that newspapers and magazines have learned to adapt to these changing trends by focusing on the localized versions of national stories that are usually the focus of news published through digital means (Rogers, 2017). By doing this, news outlets have found a different niche that stands out from what the mainstream digital media offers, thus striking a balance between both mediums of publications.             Source Analysis             The issue about the decrease in demand for print journals is heavily relevant for the current issues in journalism since it affects millions of journalists around the world. These includes both newspaper and magazine journalist (among others) that are employed to companies that have not yet integrated a way to publish their stories in the internet. The source of the information above was written by Tony Rogers, a journalist that writes for different blogs and digital media publications. He is a professional journalist, the graduated with a B.A. in Journalism at the University of Wisconsin, and pursued a Masters in Journalism at Columbia University.  Despite being published in a digital medium, the article that he has written about the state of digital media could be used as a credible source for this particular issue. Moreover, his stance is clearly not biased towards print nor digital media. However, one of the major issues of his work is that it does not involve any useful bibliography nor does it show where the data were take from. The author of this article was only able to confirm the information by conducting an external research.    Rise in the number of “Fake Journalists”             Summary             The rise in the number of fake journalists have been a major issue that accompanied the dominance of social media as a source of information. On the one hand, this has led to...