Saturday, February 4, 2017

Can traditional journalism survive in a media environment in which consumption happens mostly on social media, and sites like Buzzfeed use sensationalism shock to increase clicks

Traditional journalism, like the newspaper were dominating the market for many years. With the introduction of social media this changed drastically. Nowadays, consumption of media happens via social media sites wich are using sensationalistic shock to increase clicks. Therefore it is really hard for traditional journalism to survive in the media environment. Especially many young people consume media though social media sites, like Buzfeed and Facebook, while the older generations tend to pick newspaper articles. 

Even though it seems like traditional journalism is a dying market, I would argue that it did adopt to the new situation. Many newspapers offer there readers online versions of the articles they publish. 

It isn't easy for traditional journalism to survive in this media environment, but many people are aware of the fact that social media articles are not always trustworthy. So people who want to get news that are actually presenting facts will tend to make sure to read articles from the traditional journalism market.  

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