online journalism prospects and challenges

“Networked Publics,” University of Southern California, provides the following definition of Online Journalism, “Online journalism refers to news content produced and/or distributed via the Internet, particularly material created by journalists who work for mainstream market driven news organizations. While blogs and other emerging forms of online news communication are widely acknowledged as significantly influencing mainstream news content both on and offline, they are considered here a distinct phenomenon and treated under the category of alternative media”

History:The first type of digital journalism, called teletext, was invented in the UK in 1970. Teletext is a system allowing viewers to choose which stories they wish to read and see it immediately. The information provided through teletext is brief and instant, similar to the information seen in digital journalism today.American journalist, Hunter S. Thompson relied on early digital communication technology beginning by using a fax machine to report from the 1971 US presidential campaign trail as documented in his book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.After the invention of teletext was the invention of videotext, of which Prestel was the world’s first system, launching commercially in 1979 with various British newspapers such as the Financial Times lining up to deliver newspaper stories online through it. Videotext closed down in 1986 due to failing to meet end-user demand.

First Non- Geographical web 1992 First Geographical Web 1993First Journalism Website 1993First Online Newspaper 1994

“Palo Alto weekly’’

Prospects & Challenges (Prospects refers to chances or possibilities what is going to happen in future)Online journalism is the Future:It’s the media to stay, because newspaper and TV revenues are down. A few newspapers in the world has already closed down its print edition while continuing to online edition. From the past few decades almost every News organization has started their online web pages, and the number of web pages are increasing day by day.so, it can be expect that in future all newspaper will shifted onto online by closing down their print editions. As people feels more comfortable to access online because they found such an amazing facilities like they can read the news which they want to read by just one click.

Does not have to wait for 24 hours to be

updated

Infinite choice

Flavored information

Video coverage

Interactivity

Personalization

So,It can be say that it’s the media to stay !

Print Media at declineFrom past decades print media seems to facing a little decline, and also in future it may face big decline and shifting towards online.In the U.S., the newspaper industry is going through a tough time. More and more people are now using Internet to get news and information. In July last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in America published a report titled, “THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES The changing media landscape in a broadband age.” The report said that as more and more people were using Internet to access news, readers of

Here are the Graphs showing Traditional

media Decline…

Web continues to dominate….

The 2011 report says,

In December 2010, 41% of Americans cited the internet as the place where they got “most of their news about national and international issues,” up 17% from a year earlier. When it came to any kind of news, 46% of people now say they get news online at least three times a week, surpassing newspapers (40%) for the first time.

Some causes of Print Media decline:Slow mediumSo many publicationsNo Interactivity short life low quality colour reproductioncannot deliver sound and motionmessages compete with one another

Limited Information and News

Lesser readership Difficulty in distribution Difficult to access Expanses versus income

Print media facing ignorance since 1990s in Pakistan, but today electronic media (TV channels) also at some ignorance because of online journalism’s strengths (interactivity, multimedia, and fast). It has great impact on people of all age groups. It may say that its future will be so bright. But traditional media will not die.

Challenges:

Speed and accuracy, inaccurate news

convergence

limited readership and illiteracy

high cost of surfing

No ethics

traditional media preference

Conclusion:It may be concluded that, we have a positive vision of the future of journalism and we don’t believe that the other media are going to disappear. Despite of the fact that they have the same function, they present different ways to inform.

A lot of people believe in the extinction of the newspapers. We think that newspapers, television and radio are compatible with Internet, and the duty of the journalist is look for new functions for this media. On one hand, Internet is a new media and has mistaken. On the other hand, our society doesn’t like the changes. That’s why a lot of people prefer the traditional media. Like this online journalism face many challenges more.

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