Citizen Journalism conference

The second day of Journalism In Crisis just started and renowned academics gathered in the Old Cinema to discuss the concept of “Citizen Journalism”.

 

Journalism’s paradigm shifts: a model for understanding long-term change

Colette Brin, from the Universite Laval, Quebec, opened the discussion with a presentation on the patterns of change in the journalism practice.

“The current context of intense and rapid changes is a cause of great uncertainty and concern as to the future of journalism, mostly among journalists themselves, but also among educators and scholars.”

Colette Brin presented a theoritical model of long-term patterns of change in journalistic practice. She demonstrated how the crisis journalism is facing today actually began around the 1970s and has progressively replace the “information journalism” by an emerging “communication journalism paradigm, characterized by intersubjectivity, intense information flow and a hypercompetitive media market”.

She explained her theory in further details by introducing the example of Quebec’s first tabloid newspaper Le journal de Montreal who recently created a website called Rue Frontenac, which illustrates this new “communication revolution”.