IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

Dr Pramod Kumar

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

The Future of Indian Newsroom : A Study of Technological Interventions in the Newsrooms of Leading Media Houses

Dr Pramod Kumar

Abstract :

Keeping in view the growing automation in Newsrooms of Indian media houses for the last two decades, Robots being upgraded to produce news on a large scale in the US, the UK, China, etc. and smartphone assuming the centre stage in organising bureau meetings, gathering, processing and dissemination of news, there are talks that the Newsroom in present form may vanish from Indian media houses in coming two decades. However, it does not mean that newspapers will die and TV channels & radio will discontinue oadcast. All these will continue, but in newer formats. What will be that format is difficult to predict at this moment, but the newspapers may be in a paperless format, TV may be screenless & app–based, and the digital media will thrive in unimaginable formats. Machines will be operated through Neural Instructions. The Newsrooms in many Indian media houses have already started moving in that direction. This is a fact that the media houses, which adapt to this change timely will survive, and the rest will become history.