What is the Difference between conventional journalism and precision journalism?
Conventional Journalism focuses primarily on reporting breaking news events, human interest stories, public interest narratives, or celebrity/political updates; its methods prioritize timeliness, accessibility, and simplicity to reach a broad audience. Precision Journalism differs by incorporating rigorous scientific principles and methods within journalistic research. Journalists employ statistical models, data synthesis, computer techniques, in-depth research methods, interviewing techniques, etc. Accuracy & objectivity guide them to analyze, evaluate, confirm data before reporting facts rather than sharing assumptions.