SOCIAL MEDIA YES …BUT  JOURNALISTS TOO!

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 Well, The question is, do we still need journalists in the age of social media? Not an easy one, isn’t it?

With the increasing amount of different social media out there, we are called to think whether we still need journalists or not. If this question was asked to me, I would answer it with a YES. And you, how would you tackle it?

I would rather say yes because a journalist’s task in or outside the studio is not the same as the one of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more others. Social media mostly need journalists and also particular people or even PR people in order for it to function. Please stop me if I am wrong! We are all informed about what is happening around the globe because of media people like journalists who sometimes can work independently of a certain company out there to gather information or they can still work dependently of a certain firm (

It is true that most people or in this case social media people can easily rely on social media in order for them to get informed. But indeed we still need journalists, most of those factual information comes from journalists who can still post them on social media in order for them to stay in communication with their fans or readers. I think we understand each other.

                                          

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Therefore social media cannot do without journalists and if you allow me I can even say that the two have mutual roles and they complete each other by the way journalists posts most of their information on social media and social media also need journalists in order for it to spread those posts toward the rest of the world as social media can facilitate the access of information from different places in order for users to get informed. WELL…. This is my own point of view.