“Opinion based journalism has taken over”. This was said by Thomas Ritley the person we interviewed in class today. This made me think on how news have changed during the years and how now this is popular in news.

He mentioned in the past he used to “write obituaries” when he first got started in the journalism world this is what he would do. He worked for 25 years and then according to him“journalism died” . Which was something interesting to hear and he meant it in the way as a business since it was slowly becoming less popular.

Journalism has now evolved into something you can access from many channels online that maybe could fit a certain narrative that you want to believe. For example websites that support political parties and their ideologies or instead of reading from paper now people are reading from their phone.

With time he also stopped working as a journalist switched up completely, and he became as he said a “strategic marketing specialist who works for insurance”. So he mentioned that this new job “My role is to get people to buy an insurance through internet”. Interesting change from journalism but it is his new reality.