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The website "Predictions For Journalism 2022" by NiemanLab contains the predictions of many influential journalists for this new year. Reading those predictions feels like having access to the diaries of the people who tell the world's stories and hearing their professional fears and the challenges they consider they will have to face in the short term. Besides their profession being hard, journalists will always have faith and a positive attitude towards the future. After all, they make us aware of the tragedies and gladden our hearts with the victories.
Life itself is complicated. The experiences and moments that mark our lives will make us constantly jump off obstacles. However, the pandemic that broke out in the world in 2019 made those obstacles triple in size and came to change life as we knew it. COVID-19 impacted the professional lives of all workers, and many had to adapt their way of working to the "new normal."
Journalist Alice Antheaume in her post for NiemanLab titled "We Remember The Importance Of Face-To-Face Reporting," talks about the transition and changes at work that journalists went through when COVID-19 emerged. She makes it clear that although the adaptation was difficult at first, journalists knew how to take advantage of the home office. His prediction for 2022, in matters related to COVID-19, is that while such a virus will still be with us, interactions between people are becoming possible again so that journalism will return to some of the original practices, such as face-to-face interviews. Antheaume sums it up by saying:
"In 2022, as journalists strive to distinguish between sincere insights and questionable testimonies, getting back into the field is bound to come back into fashion."
However, many professionals will continue to opt for the comforts and advantages that the new normal gave them because, as I mentioned earlier, journalists always see the positive side of things.
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