{"id":2532,"date":"2019-04-22T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2019-04-21T18:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T23:49:37","slug":"drones-journalists-and-hackathons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2019\/04\/22\/drones-journalists-and-hackathons\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones, Journalists and Hackathons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This post was created in collaboration with the <\/em><\/strong>Minnesota Journalism Center<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The landscape of journalism is changing every day. The Pew Research Center reported<\/a> that newspaper newsroom employees declined by 45% between 2008 and 2017, and Nieman Lab argues<\/a> that newsrooms are in the midst of a \u201cdo-or-die moment.\u201d As traditional newsrooms lose hundreds of reporters and editors annually, content creators including WikiLeaks and Deadspin are coming alongside legacy media outlets including CNN, the BBC, and The New York Times <\/em>to provide information to the public. All of these players publish content online in a journalistic fashion, raising the question of what journalism is as a profession.
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In the midst of a shrinking workforce, scholars are starting to pay attention to \u201cinterlopers\u201d and \u201cintralopers:\u201d Interl<\/em>opers are actors or institutions who may consider the work they do to be part of news media, though they do not always define themselves as journalists; web analytics companies are one current example. Intra<\/em>lopers are similar to interlopers, but instead work from within news organizations as specialists in digital and social media and often produce emerging technology meant to complement journalists\u2019 work. Both play increasingly key roles in journalistic spaces.
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