The world still changes. Even the way we get our news has changed and this is exactly what Jeff Jarvis points out. Jarvis provides five charts to portray the change that has happened to how we get the news today. The first chart is a simple projection on the “way it was”. News was transmitted to people by the filter of the press with limited other options. This has dramatically changed in the way people get their news today. Jarvis’ second chart emphasizes his point by showing how what once was just the press has changed into the “press sphere” where companies, sources, data, government, archives, witnesses and observers play a part in the gathering of news besides the press itself.
Jarvis gets more focused onto the change into the world today by his third chart. This chart portrays the world as it should be: focused on the public. When this is seen, we see exactly how the people today get their news. A little of it comes from the press, true. But the major source of news today for the individual is peers. Media, links, government, search, companies, and work are also major sources of news, some of which are bigger than the press itself.
Jarvis’ next chart shows how stories were once made and are made today. Jarvis argues that stories before were immediate: were news came in and stories came out, were text and photos comes in and the paper goes out. Everything was done instantaneously. Now, however, the story is just a small phase of the entire cycle which begins with ideas, discussions, questions and ends with corrections, comments, or and follow-ups.
Jarvis’ last chart is related to the fourth. It shows the components of a story. It lists quotes, links, feed, corrections, comment, narratives, video and photos all as components that make up a story today. Jarvis’ charts are crystal clear in what they try to convey even if his words got a bit confusing at times, which I suspect is the reason for his chart inputs. The world is still changing. News as we had once known it just from the press has now changed to encompass the press-sphere.
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