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diff --git a/wired/old/published/darfur/db-journalism.txt b/wired/old/published/darfur/db-journalism.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc3a5c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/darfur/db-journalism.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The abundance of information on the Web - its storage, management, multiple use and the unlimited possibilities to recombine and feed into content to different systems and data formats - are challenging journalism regarding its own processes of rationalizing information. There is some degree of ambivalence to these developments. This is due in part to the reduction of work required to sample content to a mere administration of databases on the one hand and the possibility of new fields of activity and ways of working on the other hand [24]. + +Due to this fact the term 'database-journalism' is about to be redefined in a far-reaching sense. It would not only mean material selection from databases and online news research (Garrison, 2001) but also supplying databases with raw material - articles, photos and other content - by using medium-agnostic publishing systems and then making it available for different devices. This would turn databases into 'hubs' in newsrooms which in turn will affect news values and the generation of media coverage. + +The structural differentiation of journalism with the rise of the Web will not lead to a deterioration of journalistic traditions. Structural differentiation will lead to a functional increase or decrease of performance and output. This would be the case if traditional journalistic functions are taken over by other systems or if the professional standards would be re-defined due to economic or political influences.
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