Cape Town Conference: A people’s revolution
The revolution brought about by the internet means the potential for increased interactivity between the media and reader is greater than ever, according to Francois Nel, a director at Lancashire Business School.
A people’s revolution has begun, Nel told the 14th World Editors Forum in a session on balancing ethics, transparency and independence in the newsroom on Wednesday.
Nel said there had also been a “fundamental shift” in the relationship between professional and traditional media usage for reasons including technology, demographics and economics.
There were “huge pressures” presented by these revolutions, which required journalists to think about what they should be doing and how they should be doing it. Ethics was not only about how journalists do their jobs, he said, but also about what jobs they do.
In order for the media landscape to grow, journalists should not only be doing more, but should be doing things differently, while realizing that space for mistakes was essential for growth.
The good news, Nel said, was that the media landscape was increasing.
By Kim Hawkey, Wits University Journalism
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