HOW MUCH IS INFOTAINMENT THE NEW NEWS?
HOW MUCH IS INFOTAINMENT THE NEW NEWS?
Author(s): Nicolae MelinescuSubject(s): Media studies
Published by: Editura Politehnica
Keywords: infotainment; hard/soft news; media communication; news packages; current-affairs magazine;
Summary/Abstract: Infotainment has become a new approach to news reporting lately and introduced into the public sphere matters that seemed hard to crack, especially in terms of economic, financial and political analysis. The inner structure of news production has changed in terms of gathering, processing and disseminating novelties and in the way in which the public evaluated the shifts in media planning biased towards commercialization and entertainment. The «new news» will probably share the fate of the so-called new media (actually, new digital platforms that took over the signs and their significance from print, radio, cinematography and television): groundbreaking experiences will become gradually goods and gains of the journalistic trade while the useless ones will be shaken off in the media industry’s search for new approaches to reality and truth.
Journal: Professional Communication and Translation Studies
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 8
- Page Range: 3-11
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
