Results tagged “churnalism” from Birmingham Post - Business Blog
News is news. That's what readers, viewers and listeners worry about.
The quality press - more prone to navel-gazing - and the media's own trade press are also interested in how news is made? Is it real news? Or manufactured news? And does it matter?
There has been a lot of discussion in the trade press recently - as well as in the blogs of our locally-based CIPR President Lis Lewis-Jones - about what's been dubbed 'churnalism'. This is the notion that journalists working in the media are now so lazy, under-resourced, over-stretched or just plain untalented that they spend most of their time churning second-hand news delivered by agencies and press releases.


















