How journalism will change in the future?

   Today, the power of the Internet is very strong and it has influences on politics, economy, and culture. As Andrew argues in The Noble Amateur, the Internet has made a platform where everyone can send information to people who live all over the world making the difference between professionals and amateurs difficult to distinguish. In addition, the status of professionals has fallen due to this situation.

   However, amateurs are not the only existence that threatens the professionals’ status, but also an algorithm can replace their status. In short, the status of human beings itself can be threatened by computers in the near future. In Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?,  Levy talks about whether an algorithm will replace reporters through Narrative Science, which is an algorithm that can write news. In the article it was written that even though Hammond expects more than 90 percent of news would be written by computers in 15 years and “In 20 years, there will be no area in which Narrative Science doesn’t write stories”. However, he thinks the job of journalists will still have demand.

   Yet certainly, what people do will be replaced by computers and their jobs will decrease. By the spread of algorithm, people have become able to collect information effectively, and it makes our lives rich. On the other hand, people, especially professionals, will face the situation where they have to compete with not only amateur, but also computers. That is why professionals will have a difficult time to keeping their jobs in the near future. It is an ironic, because human beings struggle due to computer made by themselves.