6/21/2023 0 Comments House of cards slugline editor![]() ![]() In Slugline, editors can just focus on words and passing the news quickly without worrying about format and appearances because the website will do the job for them. … Whatever hoops the Herald made you jump through, let them go.” The website name “Slugline” actually indicates the notion of time where editors compete with others in a highly sophisticated technological world. ![]() If you’re satisfied with the article, just put it up. The goal here is for everyone to post things faster than I have a chance to read ‘em. Zoe was actually surprised when her new boss says: “You don’t have to send me things before you post. Later on she joins the online news site “Slugline” where people think outside the box and write freely about what they want and post news quickly as soon as they have them from their smartphones or tablets. For those who watch the show “House of Cards”, the journalist Zoe Barnes decides to quit her job at “The Washington Herald” (a fictional newspaper) where she always struggled with her boss to let her publish news more quickly and resisted the layers of editing that slowed the process. Nowadays, even younger professional journalists realized that it is time to drift away from the traditional journalism procedures and embrace technology. In his comment about the story’s significance, Shirky says “…one of the themes running through the story is the power of group action, given the right tools.” What makes this story unusual is that Evan used the right technology tools to bring awareness of the incident and made the story popular online. By making the world a “global village” the internet allows people to spread out the word in a more convenient and effective manner than what it would have been in the real world where face to face interaction is necessary. He didn’t require any prior training in reporting and publishing and was just able to use the right technology tools to reach his goals. Evan’s success to involve the community and bring his friend’s story on the spotlights demonstrates the power of blogging that people have today. Evan was able to post pictures and personal information of the girl who stole the phone and managed to escalate the story to national news headlines, and eventually was able to retrieve the phone. The cellphone was very important for Ivanna since it contained information of her upcoming wedding from “contact information for the catering company to the guest list.” After her failed attempts to retrieve the phone from the girl who found it, Ivanna’s friend Evan decided to use his technology expertise to retrieve the phone and created a website to draw people’s sympathy about the ongoing search for the phone. ![]() In chapter one of “Here Comes Everybody,”Shirky relates an interesting story of Ivanna who left her cellphone in a New York City cab. Shirky says “if everyone can do something (publish information), it is no longer rare enough to pay for, even if it is vital.” Shirky even jokes that the only thing separating professional journalists and amateurs is an IRS definition of who makes more money and who pays more taxes. In todays’ advanced world, publishing is no longer a rare commodity limited to professionals who were exposed to intensive training and who rely on journalism to make a living. With the introduction of websites such as Flickr, YouTube, Instagram, or IstockPhoto there is no need for professional photographers and cameramen anymore since technology makes it easy for anyone to produce a quality work by following a few easy steps. Our world has become just like McLuhan calls it a “global village” where news happening on one side of the world are being transmitted by regular people to the other side of the world within a few minutes. Today, anyone with a smartphone and internet connection can capture news as it is happening and publish it within a few minutes to the general public. According to Clay Shirky, “Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions don’t involve an orderly transition from point A to point B.” Clay Shirky states that in this new digital age, the boundaries between professional journalists (using hot mediums) and amateurs (using cold mediums) are blurred changing the way traditional journalism has been working for a long time. It is just hard to predict the evolutions caused by technology and I am sure that phone manufacturers did not foresee that this new communication tool could be extended later on to other areas such as photography and editing. In the age of the smartphone and the internet “everybody is a media outlet” and people don’t need to remain restricted to using traditional methods of news reporting and publishing to be professional journalists. ![]() Thanks to technology, the reception and delivery of news has changed drastically over the last few decades. ![]()
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