In strict sense according to the historians, the first newspaper was that that Julio Caesar made place in the Roman Forum in Century I of ours was, and to which denominated “Diurnal Act”. There by the age it mediates the pages written with the news were common in the streets of the cities of the old world. For example, in Venice these pages were sold at the cost of one “gazzetta”, Read the rest of this entry »
Throughout its history, the press has had a voluble relation of ripples and spacings with the powers political and economic. To a certain extent, the media has been dependent to the dynamic of the political power because it has been part of the same one, in spite of its possible attempts to stay to the margin of him.
If in century XVIII, the press centered its eagerness in merely informative contents, and for century XIX it oriented his profile towards political causes and ideological disputes of opinion, as of century XX it began to handle itself as a spectacular showcase for the entertainment and the impulse of the businesses, vein that today is operated to the maximum.
In the interview which looks for basically it is the opinion of a person or group of people on a certain subject. It is not like the news, that in theory it must objective and be presented/displayed lacking of opinions that can induce to the reset of her to an interested opinion. That, as we say, in theory.
The interview has in main lines an interviewer and an interviewed person that responds to the questions of first, although we must consider that in an interview an interviewer or interviewed person can participate but in.
We do not agree about Internet being the new mass media, some simply consider it like a convergence space. But the position that maintains that we are contributor witnesses and of the birth and development of another means, surpassed and with own characteristics, every day has more followers. This new mass media use the textual, sonorous and visual language, and in addition it has virtues that surpass the limitations of traditional means: the immediacy, the interactivity, the personalización, the multimedia, but mainly, the possibility of the communication. Nevertheless, Internet also presents/displays limitations, few, but the sufficiently forceful thing like so that some they question to those who affirm that Internet will move to the newspaper, the radio and the television.
Journalism, that is the prettiest profession of the world, must return to its origins and retake the footpath that took to him to be the fourth power of the main democratic countries of the world. It is time to exile to the mediocre ones and to become radicals of the Journalism. In purists who fight to defend this profession and returns it to take to the site that is deserved and that never it had to leave.
Reporters Without Borders or RSF define themselves as an international, nongovernmental organization of French origin whose objective is to defend the freedom of press in the world and, in particular, defend the journalists persecuted by their professional activity . It was founded by his present Secretary General, Robert Menard, and has his permanent seat in Paris.
At the beginning of century XIX, a journalist was somebody who wrote in publications, but in the last century a journalist has become so much more than a writer for newspapers or magazines.
