Commemorating 10 things said or done in 2005 (before YouTube) that predicted the future of journalism. I'd left active journalism having hit the "squeezed middle". With no other journalism gigs, I thought why not build a future. So I did, coding and building an array of tech together around an interactive site viewmagazine.tv. I bugged (LOL)Mfriends like Kim Jack-Riley and Palesa Letlaka , M.A., PSM I , SAFe, ICP-ACC to contribute which they did, and set students hackathons.
Viewmagazine.tv in its interactive magazine form closed down in 2007, not before winning one of the world's most respected prizes in Innovation, The Knight Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism.
So what was that future? Has it happened and what is yet to take place? And what of a prediction today for the next twenty years
So with receipts here's the future predicted in 2005.
1. Online would move referred to as the Outernet (Featured on Apple Inc).
(https://lnkd.in/g2s7Ugs)
2. Everyone will become a star and stream video to each other (featured in Journalism.co.uk)
https://lnkd.in/e_c2SPvg
3. Glossy high-end magazine journalism combined with hard video news. (https://lnkd.in/dvWykWTy)
4. Interactive images morph into video when clicked.
(ibid)
5. Videojournalism will be overtaken by a new storytelling format that is more conscious of cinema's ways for storytelling (Featured in Press Gazette)
https://lnkd.in/ef_zpBxv
6. You'll be able to videohyperlink from one video to another seamlessly (featured in The Economist).
https://lnkd.in/eFb-Wbbd)
7. Brandcasting will become the norm (featured in Sunday Times).
https://lnkd.in/e3hQSv2N
8. A generation of students must learn coding and website building skills. (featured in Viewmag - my award winning blog from blogger.com)
https://lnkd.in/eKNtudMY
8. Developed usability and psychology behind interactive journalism
(former student, now BBC foreign correspondent). https://lnkd.in/ebSyfWda)
9. Something called mobile blogging will become popular (featured on journalism.co.uk).
https://lnkd.in/gQyryD3) - presented to directors at the BBC first in 2004.
10. There is power in diversity of storytelling and featuring other sides of a story.
https://lnkd.in/e9e-Ve_y
So what of a prediction today for the next twenty years? Click here to find out https://lnkd.in/ezQhGj3P
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