New and Digital Media Stories: Week 17

Article from The Guardian

The article outlines the inaccuracy within some scare stories created by journalists in leading firms.  

Key Quotes: 

• "The British press has been accused of whipping up a “misinformed media storm” over a court case in which judges decided that a man whose employer accessed his personal messages had not had his rights violated."
• “Certain parts of the UK media sometimes have trouble getting their facts right when covering ‘Europe’. It’s understandable, to a certain extent. Europe’s institutions are complicated, journalists cover lots of different issues and they work to tight deadlines,” a spokesman for the body said.

In my opinion, I think that this article is a prime example of the awareness that journalists must encompass to ensure that their news stories are accurate and valid, to sway away from misleading and providing invalid information to the public, which has proven to scare and alert audiences. 

Article from The Guardian

The article refers to the recent claims that "investigative journalism is dead" and follows journalist, Peter Preston, highlighting all of the news journalists and institutions who help prove that this is untrue such as Murdoch (the Times and Sunday Times) and Edward Snowden (The Guardian). He then explains that despite there not being extensive "investigations" that occur - news is still being reported and told, which is the most important aspect of it all.

Key Quotes include: 

"The crux is that the term “investigative journalism” describes ways and means, not subject matter."

"Journalism isn’t some narrow sect of interests and concerns. The Spotlight [film that was introduced at the start of the article] may have a wider beam, the Insight [other text] may be more international – but don’t think for a second that the story of terrific stories has reached an end."

In my opinion, I agree with Preston's ideas because ultimately news is the platform in which stories are reported and investigative journalism essentially happens within all news that is presented to audiences. Therefore, it is unfair to say that it is "dead", because it is in fact constantly occurring beneath all journalism.