26/09/16 - Publishers and journalists must work together to save journalism (5)

26/09/16 - Publishers and journalists must work together to save journalism (5)

Rather than focus alone on the fact that print is an increasingly dying media, this article details how the people behind it, journalists or reporters, are always at the losing end of the situation. While undoubtedly the digital revolution and adoption of e-media is discussed and cited as the main reason for journalists losing their jobs, publishers are also said to be the cause for this too. In saying that 'the crisis we journalists face at the hands of publishers is the destruction of our trade and therefore the annihilation of a public service,' the perception is got across that publishers are in fact a big reason as to why a number of jobs related to journalism have had to go. This tends to be due to the fact that (skilled, experienced) journalists have a reasonable amount of costs attached to them for publishers to pay with the research they make often taking considerable time to conduct, meaning from an economical standpoint 'desk-bound journalists' are ideal. With this the point is gotten across that both publishers and journalists will need to come together to work out how to solve the issue.

• Guardian News and Media, which owns The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, is to cut another 250 jobs in its latest effort to erase losses that came in at nearly £60m last year - 100 positions cut from editorial

This article furthers the discussion of the impact new digital media is having on the news industry, in specific to the jobs of journalists. What it does differently though, is approach it from a different perspective than is usually done in that publishers are also cited as a reason journalism has been falling in recent years. To combat against this as the rise of technology will not be looking to stop anytime soon, all that really can be done to prevent it having the damaging impacts that it has is for there to be closer work between them and journalists. Whether publishers will engage in this though is a whole different thing with economic benefits being the main thing in mind for them as oppose to improving the culture.