In the past, journalism has really been society's only glimpse into the worlds that they investigate. They relied on the journalist's reports for information, as they had no way of learning about a particular subject otherwise. Nowadays, if you're curious about anything you can imagine, you can just search it into your smartphone and have all the answers you may need. This advance in technology is extremely beneficial to the general public, but journalists have had their work cut out for them as a result. Now, it's not up to them to show the public things they want to know, that job's been transferred to Google. However, as Laura Davis says, journalist's jobs should be to "respond to the media landscape instead of just operating in it", meaning that they should be open to change which may be required of them in this era of information. A study found on https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/journalists-get-left-behind-in-the-industrys-decline/ states that about 8,000 journalistic jobs had been lost this year alone. The industry has been declining for a while, and while I don't think there will ever be absolutely no need for journalists, I definitely think that their usefulness is becoming lower and lower.
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