Journalism and psychology

Pages: 81-83
Manpreet Ola (Department of Clinical Psychology, Amity University, Gurugram, Haryana)

Journalism is defined as the medium through which the world gets the daily news and information, it might be that information that we don’t know about. Journalists write, present and talk about various topics of day to day life. It can be investigative information; it can be information and news about entertainment and other essential types of information related to sports, technology, mental health etc. But if we pay close attention to the various forms and types of journalism, we can see that it is mainly covering up the negative aspect or side of the story, hardly do we see or hear about positive changes and results in the world. Because of vast studies conducted worldwide on the harmful implications of negative journalism, the trend nowadays is moving towards positive journalism or as we commonly understand as constructive journalism. This sort of journalism instead of primarily revolving around negative side of the story, emphasizes the importance of seeing the solution-based side to the problem, it abstains from revolving around the negative side, instead pays attention to the positive, healthy news. Journalism is a very strong weapon that the entire world uses, therefore it’s essential to use it constructively. By making use of positive journalism, journalists can change our thoughts, our negative mind sets, our thinking patterns. Not only this positive journalism also leads to generation of positive ideas. The aim of this paper is to study the impact of positive journalism on the psychological mind set of people.