Vikram Chandra’s Editorji Wants To Create Citizen News Editors With A Little Help From AI

There’s no doubt that the video format and broadcasting changed the face of news altogether. If print journalists presented a well-crafted picture of the story, broadcast journalists were on the scene and showing you the picture, which often spoke volumes more than text. TV news transformed what the world thought is newsworthy and fundamentally changed how news and journalism are consumed by people around the world.“It is still going to show me the major stories. It will show me the headlines. It’s still gonna say Trump has done this, you need to know this.”“We are allowing people to be the ‘Editorji’ in their own individual groups. So everyone can do it. Tomorrow, individuals can do it,  companies can do it.”

But if there were days when the term ‘news’ brought up images of dignified anchors in your head, these days the word brings up imagery of misleading information or fake news, shouting matches on TV, and sensationalism to gain TRP. The unstoppable march of digital journalism has forced broadcast media to go all-in on these undesired elements to sell news while forgetting the basics of what constitutes journalism.