In the age of Trump and ‘fake’ news, amid the relentless 24/7 news cycle how do contemporary journalists navigate their way in a chaotic world?
Griffith University’s Associate Professor Susan Forde will address this question in the 2017 Arts, Education & Law Professorial Lecture tomorrow (Tuesday, May 16) at South Bank.
“Websites and social media off-shoots provide a limitless capacity for news content but the number of journalists reporting on an ever-more complex political scene is plummeting,’’ she said.
“Decreasing revenues have led to an urgent need to build audiences by whatever means necessary.
“For many news organisations, this means giving Donald Trump three times as much coverage as Hillary Clinton during the US election campaign because readers are far more likely to ‘click’ on a Trump story; or reporting a Paris robbery involving reality TV celebrity Kim Kardashian as the top news item of the day.”
Assoc Prof Susan Forde
While acknowledging the many challenges facing
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