For the first time in her history, the Philippines wins a Nobel Peace Prize!
ANN says it was announced today, Friday, 08 October 2021 in
the news “Nobel Peace Prize: Journalists Maria Ressa And Dmitry Muratov Share
Award[1]” (Author Not Named, BBC.com; Maria Ressa image[2] from Pep.ph). She is Filipina; he is
Russian. “For their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression which is a
precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”
The nature
of the common award-winning journalism of the Filipina and the Russian is that
of print media. This is the
journalism that The Soyang Group says began simply[3]: Ts’ai Lun, a Chinese official, invented paper in AD 105, and 40 years later, Pi Sheng invented the first movable type. In 1476, Johannes
Gutenburg invented printing,
which in effect invented journalism.
In
“Journalism In The Digital Age[4]” (2010),
Danny
Crichton, Ben Christel, Aaditya Shidham, Alex Valderrama & Jeremy Karmel of Stanford Computer Science ask a paradigm-shifting
question: “How has journalism changed?” Their answer:
The two largest changes in modern journalism
strike at the heart of traditional notions surrounding journalists and news
companies.
Firstly, the rise of the blogger and
user-based journalism has become immensely popular among both new and old
media companies, a change that has drastically altered the definition of a
journalist. (underlining mine)
Yes! Today, even Nobel Peace Prize-winning
journalists must recognize that journalism has changed – blogging has reinvented journalism, quantity-wise, quality-wise!
Main image above shows my essay “Vibrant Communication For
Development Is What Is Lacking In PH Govt Departments” dated 28 August 2021 in
my blog Communication for Development.
One of my early blogs, The BlogFather,
was “Dedicated to the art & heart of blogging” (April 2007). That shows
that 14 years ago, I was already furiously blogging. Starting 2000, I have blogged
some 5,000 essays of a minimum 1,000 words each!
Continuing my quote from Danny Crichton & others above:
Secondly, the linked nature of the Internet has
given rise to content aggregators like Google News or
The Huffington Post that no longer rely on individual
journalists to provide news, but instead depend on their ability to gather and
collect information into a single location where users can access it. Together
they are altering society’s traditional ideas regarding journalists and news.
Since January 2020, I have been blogging every single day,
even at 81 years of age, practicing my own theory of communication for
development (ComDev) I originated in December 1980. I blog in agriculture and
related sciences, digitally available knowledge served byte-size, aimed mostly
at public officials, private leaders & businessmen, and literate farmers.
I am proud today blogging has in fact & effect shifted
freedom of personal communication to
freedom of social communication for
the development of villages.
I can imagine being a Nobel Peace Prize winner
in print journalism is an indescribably ecstatic feeling; nonetheless, I know ComDev
is more challenging and everlastingly gratifying.
Today, I am inviting Maria Ressa & her
Rappler print journalists to the astonishments of digital journalism!@517
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