On November 11, 2010 Mark Tremayne, assistant professor of Journalism at the University of
Texas at Austin, held a presentation about the future of Journalism and digital
media to the Journalism graduated students from DePaul University.
Tremayne,
who spent a decade in Broadcast Journalism, earned his PhD from University of
Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation focused on web-based news and
interactivity. He is also the editor of the 2007 book Blogging, Citizenship and the Future of Media, which focus on the
role of blogs in the contemporary media landscape.
The
presentation from the DePaul University had three main areas of focus: what has
changed in the media, what is the same and hyperactivity in news gathering.
The new
trend, Tremayne started, is that a lot of newspapers are closing down, but the
number of newspapers’ blogs is rising. In Re-writing
and Editing chapter from The
Responsible Reporter book, writers Bruce Evensen and David Copeland make
the same observation “Today, it is almost impossible to find a television or
radio station, or a newspaper or magazine, that does not have a website.”