re: What has journalism become?

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This has been happening for decades. Welcome to the party pal

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Centuries.

A town crier, also called a bellman,[citation needed] is an officer of a royal court or public authority who makes public pronouncements as required.[1]

Prior to widespread literacy, town criers were the means of communication with the people of the town since many people could not read or write. Proclamations, local bylaws, market days, adverts, were all proclaimed by a bellman or crier.
In ancient Rome, they typically proclaimed public business during the market days that formed a kind of weekend every eight days.[2]