Journalism
has to do with gathering, processing and dissemination of news information
through various means of mass communication such as print means and broadcast
means. In recent times, journalism in Pavlik J. V’s view of 2001 tends to
undergo a fundamental transformation which gives rise to the emergence of a new
form of journalism whose distinguishing qualities include ubiquitous news,
global information access, instantaneous reporting, interactivity, multimedia
content and extreme content customization. This era is that of the new media
which foster online journalism.
From
the foreground, one can infer that journalism is fundamentally the same and
that the difference between the conventional ways of journalism and the newest
way: online journalism is in the medium at which both disseminate their contents.
As such, online journalism can be conceived as the media share of digital
revolution which combines with core journalism skills of reporting, editing of
news and features production and programming. The central idea about online
journalism is that it is soft (that is, you cannot touch it), notwithstanding
it contents can be made available in hard copies.
In
essence, online journalism is the gathering, processing and dissemination of
contents (which can be news or other human interest issues, stories and
information) via new media by professional journalists. However, until a news
and information is packaged and disseminated on the web by professionals in the
field of journalism or by professional outlets that such qualifies as online
journalism.
