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AIPS 75TH ANNIVERSARY CONGRESS INNSBRUCK New Media: Boon and bane for the journalism | |
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| Delegates at the 75th AIPS congress.(Photo by Gergo Kodrucz, Hungary) |
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By Jan Mies, Young Reporter( Germany) |
INNSBRUCK, January 15, 2012 - What is a journalist? A good journalist? A responsible-minded journalist? Nowadays the number of so-called journalists, no matter whether text or video, increases day by day and became a real danger for the trusting consumers.
As much as the internet is important for our daily work, the new media makes it too easy for everyone to spread his opinion all over the world and sell it as a professional researched work. When it looks good, it’s good – a thought which stultifies the real journalistic work.
“We have to get an overview of the chaos of websites”, AIPS New Media commission secretary Rik Lamoral told the 75th AIPS Congress: “We were overwhelmed by internet sites which wanted to be in our profession.” AIPS developed a system to generate a new media profile, which rates websites and judge, whether it’s journalistic or not.
A set criteria shall ensure that the internet becomes trustworthy again for the millions of sports-mad people. The tested media will be double-checked. First the national associations check all the points given and guarantee to AIPS the professionalism and then AIPS certificates the media. The aim of the AIPS new media commission led by Steve McAllister(Canada), Evelyn Watta(Kenya) and Keir Radnedge(Great Britain) and Dirk Jungels(Advisor to the Commission) is to come up with a criteria for recognition of Online media by Sports Federations and the AIPS.
The preliminary work of the national federations is important, to classify the work of the journalists. “A Blogger in the USA means something completely different as a blogger in Europe or in Africa”, Lamoral mentioned as an example.
Another task of the commission is to work against the rising problem of an increasing number of journalists and a sinking number of press stands in the sports venues.
“We have to be realistic, the press stands will not grow anymore”, Lamoral said.
A solution could be the so-called “screen-room” (virtual stands), which uses the possibilities of modern technic to bring the reporters in action – even without accreditation. Such a room, for instance fully equipped with TV-Screen for every detail, “should become a permanent tool”, Lamoral explained.
It must not be installed within the venues. A screen room outside the the accreditation zone would improve the work option of non-right-holders massively. |
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