Journalism as we know has taken its final breath. Since the popularization of the Internet, print journalism has been holding on to its last ounce of life. The future of journalism lies in social media, multimedia and artificial intelligence.

The journalism industry has already seen the effect that social media has had on the way people obtain information. Applications like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have changed the way people get their information and news. Citizens have traded in reading long articles for short, attention grabbing 140 character tweets. For those who are technologically inclined, this allows them to have hundreds of news sources at their fingertips and enables them to sift through the news picking out the main points. The incorporation of social media in journalism also allow for journalists to reach a larger audience, hence, writing more stories and writing more unique stories.

As journalism evolves and adapts to the technological age, it will start to incorporate more visual cues. Journalism is no longer a story and one headlining picture, with the help of technology, journalism can be photo albums, infographics, gifs or memes. Video journalism will also become increasingly more popular as a way to convey information. These changes will allow companies to tailor to visual learners and help them more easily gather information. Additionally infographics and well-taken photos grab readers attention while videos draw them in and keep their attention locked.

In the near future, artificial intelligence will begin to weave itself into journalism. In the recent years, journalism giants like The Washington Post have began to experiment with artificial intelligence that can generate entire articles. Technology has already been put into use auto publishing articles about the past Rio Olympics and past presidential election. The software works on a template platform that finds relevant data and then pairs it with programed phrases and seamlessly combines them. Furthermore the program can notify journalists of discrepancies found on certain topics and even update statistics on previously written stories. The goal of the technology is not to replace humans but to work alongside them and improve their efficiency.

Another piece of technology that could drastically alter the journalism world are the pilot earpieces. The earpieces which were recently developed through Indiegogo act as language translators. In a work field such as journalism where communication is key, this could make writing cross culture stories significantly easier.

As technology continues to advance, journalism as we know it will die. However, through the same technology that murdered our current journalism, we will see a reincarnation of the new age of journalism, the technological age.