What was worth noting to me.

The idea of ICT journalism is about changes the determination to go through the process of continuous change. It is salient for us to focus on how to tackle change issues as we relate to ICT journalism. Consequently we must change our mindset and relate to it appropriately in order to generate award wining successful stories.

My question how do we change our mindset to have award wining stories?

Interesting to note the dissimilarities between IT and ICT. IT or Informatique is the aggregation of information related fields such as computer hardware software; telecom network and equipment information technology based industries while ICT is (IT) that facilitates communication, processing and transmission of information by electronic means.

From the above definition I am tempted to draw a conclusion that ‘No IT No ICT’.

ICT has its uses no doubt but has rendered many journalists lazy and distorted the flow of information. Lets take the example how a journalist disseminates info

Source gatekeepers (editor) presenter audience

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Some journalist no longer source information. They just need to get to the Internet and get whatever already made information and disseminate. This information is not verified by any correspondent (the case of foreign news where a journalist just goes to news website and copy down foreign news for the foreign page) and may not reflect the situation in the country. For example, a journalist who wants to talk about global warming all he does is download information and broadcast. Where as the effect of global warming varies from one country/ continent to the other.

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What is the difference between online journalism and electronic publishing (online journalism is reporting and other journalism produced or distributed via the Internet.

I was not aware of the fact that typical newsroom have ICT policy.

What does ICT journalism mean to me.

ICT journalism is a practice whereby sourced information is disseminated using ICT tools like cell phones, Internet, fax, telephone, which are easy and swift.

ICT can make a difference in journalism as it has provided journalists with tools to facilitate communication between them and other tools to research information and tools for training. Like now we are engaged in an online course thanks to an ICT tool.

ICT has covered many components in one. Meaning all the components of the old media have been covered in one providing a computer screen for TV, a new layout for online journalism and podcast for radio. Despite these the old media can never face death because of ICT, as they are not personal.

Andrias Houston