Social media cannot replace proper news journalism
The HinduIn the last hundred years, the national Indian media — traditional and now “new” media — has grown exponentially in number and influence. In India, the discipline of “Journalism Education” was introduced by British activist Annie Besant in the 1920s, when she launched a course on journalism at the National University at Adyar, Madras. In the last two decades, we have witnessed a boom in commercial media and numerous digital journalism platforms have emerged, which has also opened avenues for citizen journalism. The challenge is to ensure that this flow includes high quality information — which is where journalism education comes in. Social media, with their huge numbers of contributors, cannot replace the production of proper news journalism, even if they compete very seriously for time and advertising.
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