It is clear that the arrival of the Internet is a revolution in the world of classic journalism, however, the ease of access and distribution of information brought about by this platform can have a series of negative consequences that affect the treatment of such information.
Jose de Celis, 34 years old, is the Editor in Chief of the digital media Motorsport.com, with more than 200 thousand followers on social media, he has previous experience in other websites, as well as other media, and has a university degree in journalism. He has dedicated his whole life to writing about Formula 1 because, in his words, "it is what I am most passionate about in my life, and if you do a job without passion, it shows".
When asked about the future of journalism, Jose makes a clear idea: "it will be digital, it is inevitable".
"It is clear that the arrival of the internet has provided a platform for all those media that, with little budget, want to do truthful journalism and previously could not in print, if you add to this that today almost all print media already have a digital website, you are left with a future in which, as the generations accustomed to reading print will disappear, print will in turn".
However, all that glitters is not gold, although the internet provides a platform of enormous size for the distribution of information, the way it is treated, can lead to problems, a clear example are the social networks, which in the opinion of Jose, "can be a very powerful tool for the distribution of information by the original media, but also for pseudo-journalists to steal that information".
"The problem with the Internet is that it is a double-edged sword, it offers a very good platform to distribute your information, but it has consequences. There are many people on social networks, specifically on Twitter, who play at being a journalist without being one, and to do so, what they do is they go to the article published by any media, copy and paste what that article says and publish it on their profile as if it were their own, without citing the source or the original author. You have to understand that this is stealing the work of someone who has spent several months or weeks talking to different people, from different parts of the world, in different languages and contrasting information so that it reaches the reader legitimately. These codes, perhaps because of ethics or perhaps because of tradition, are not usually broken in the written press, but in digital they are the order of the day".
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