This year, Twentytwo13 celebrates its fourth year in the industry.
Four years may not seem like a long time, but in that time, we have earned the reputation as an unbiased, objective, and an independent news organisation.
Our focus is to bring you – the readers – the news ‘as it is’ – ‘unglossed’ and ‘unvarnished’.
Our only aim is to give you the facts, as they happen, so that you can make informed decisions.
At Twentytwo13, we are committed to giving you, the people, a voice.
It has held us in good stead, and we will continue to bring the People’s Perspectives to the forefront, and Breaking Boundaries, while doing it.
Newsrooms have gone through a seismic transformational shift in the last 40 years.
Back then, the clackety-clack of Olivetti typewriters would be unflinching in their cadence in a smoke-filled editorial floor.
Out in the field, and before digital DSLRs, the hypnotic whirr of a Nikon F3 with a motor drive would indicate that images were being captured – pretty much a hit-and-miss proposition on whether or not they are clear enough for the front page of the evening edition.
There was no way of knowing until you got back to the office and developed that roll of film.
Today, the tools of the trade available to the intrepid journalist have been condensed into a small, tidy little package that is the smartphone or a handheld device.
Reporters are no longer huddled in front of their typewriter in the office, subsisting on a pack of smokes and a cup of tepid, rank coffee from a grungy vending machine, under the watchful gaze of a no-nonsense editor.
He is now a digital nomad, pounding away on the keypad of his smartphone in a coffee outlet sipping on a venti caramel frappucino.
Time seems to have collapsed as updates to a breaking story are measured not in the next day’s editions, but in hours.
Even as we at Twentytwo13 embrace technology and move in sync with the times, we still hold on to the fundamentals of journalism – objectivity, ethical, fair, and balanced reporting, transparency, and thoroughness.
While some things do change with the passage of time, we will continue to hold on to what matters.
