Post-journalism

The other day I was thinking about all information that, in one way or another, comes to me and I become aware of the big amount of it which comes from nonofficial sources. And it is true, the most part of the news that we read come from social media, youtube videos, or even from some friends who share them with us.

In this way, this type of transmitting information could also be named as journalism, couldn’t it?

And as we know, journalism is one of the most ancient professions of all times. This is connected to the necessity of the human to communicate with each other and, in some way, this necessity has increased in the lasts decades. Now, we can have information 24 hours 7 days a week, and not only we have it from the area that we live, but also from all over the world.

And is today when we realize that the most part of the information which comes to us isn’t exactly from official sources or written by true journalists (and for true journalists I refer to people who had studied journalism and they are graduated in it), instead of that we read articles and news written by who maybe studied politics or history.

Countless blogs about different topics as good or even better than a lot of news written in the most important newspaper, millions of tweets which in only 140 characters consolidate some of the most intelligent and interesting comments that you can read, posts in social media which make us consider our opinion about a topic, or make us see the conventional media with a more critical eyes.

A big number of us are journalists without even know it, we inform about some things and we also give our personal point of view, which is something totally unique. This way, we offer an alternative point of view, an escape valve from conventional media, and maybe this will be an important mean of transmitting information in the future. Who knows?