“In a developing country like Trinidad and Tobago where there are no specifications for a tertiary education to be a journalist.”
The laws that should govern the handling of misappropriated information are still frozen in the clauses of the Data Protection Act that have not been brought into local legislation.
We did 156 subjects together for Trini to the Bone (T2DB) over the last four years, two of those years navigated during covid restrictions.
We also offer advice and education that’s focused on media literacy and consumer literacy, but what we’re really focused on is the notion of provenance.
Your chances of achieving a truly viral post are at best, one in a million.
“At the centre of the reasons for the demand for transparent journalism is the concern for the survival of journalism, because journalism is under threat from a crisis of credibility and a changed role in the digital age.”
At stake for journalism is nothing less than the pact between audience and news packager that the reporting and commentary on offer is true to the best knowledge of its creators.
Younger audiences, particularly in the 18-24 age group, are finding their news on visual platforms, inclusive of Tik Tok. As many as 15 per cent use it as a primary source for news.
Web stories published are dragged into preset layouts for the print edition with formatting handled by AIDA.
The focus should be on supplementing the work that humans do through automation rather than thinking of the tools as a replacement, it’s not an automation or human choice.
“Overseas diaspora audiences are particularly important for Ireland, so we need to research, build out and understand where the growth opportunities are.” – Ronan Doyle
A discussion hosted by the UTT on journalism dissemination.
What required hand-coding and heavy investments in servers then can now be accomplished for less than a thousand dollars today.
TT Weathercenter’s Kalain Hosein, Wired868‘s Lasana Liburd and AZPNews‘ Prior Beharry discuss putting their journalism online at a MATT general meeting.
As a tool, the ZFold is two premium smartphones worth of battery, processors and circuitry joined by an admirably firm hinge with a 158.2 x 128.1 mm AMOLED screen stretched over it.
