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Shifting Roles, Enduring Valus: The Credible Journalist in a Digital Age

This article explores how journalism has shifted in the digital age, focusing on the changing roles of journalists while emphasizing the enduring values of authenticity, accountability, and autonomy. It discusses the importance of distinguishing real journalists from other information providers and highlights the need for credibility and reliability in the future media environment.

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Shifting Roles, Enduring Valus: The Credible Journalist in a Digital Age

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  1. Shifting Roles, Enduring Valus: The Credible Journalist in a Digital Age Lei ZHENG ( Chloe )

  2. Article Summary • the article talked about journalism shifting to the new digital age • roles has changed but the values did not • how to distinguish 'real' journalists from other infomation providers • need three values: authenticity, accountibility and automony

  3. Authenticity • what doest that mean? • The quality of established authority for truth and correctness (from dictionary) • what does it mean to journalism? • Nieman Harvard - originality matters !

  4. Accountibility • meaning: responsible for its activities and disclose the result in a transparent manner (from dictionary) • the plagiarism also happen on journalists Quote-Fabricating ‘Self-Plagiarizing’ New Yorker Writer Jonah Lehrer Finally Resigns • reference creat credibility

  5. Autonomy • inside be loyal, independent and self-governing to the information that public rely on • outside as 'fourth estate' are able to report impartial truth for protect the credibility

  6. Example refer to • Who is "A Gay Girl in Damascus"? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGL5rXTwKmc • maybe it is a joke or maybe somebody created a new identity to raise particular issues, but is it a RIGHT thing to do ?

  7. Conclusion • From my perspective all three values are all about 'truth' • the notion about 'truth' based on the way we understand • for further study, as the new technology development, the journalism in the digital era is more challenging than before • journalists are expected be more credible and reliable in future media environment

  8. Thank you !

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