Newsroom Journalism Practices

"The Internet has changed the face of newsroom journalism practice." Discuss.

Name: Nandita Menon

Student ID: 200901452

Institue of Communication of Studies

In - sessional Assignment 2014 - 2015

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"The Internet has changed the face of newsroom journalism practice." Discuss. The Oxford Dictionary defines journalism as "The activity or profession of writing for newspapers or magazines or of broadcasting news on radio or television."

If this definition can be taken into account, then we can agree that in its core journalism hasn 't changed. It still involves the acts of writing and reporting. What has changed, is the way in which these activities are conducted.

The 'New Editorial Concepts ' a strategy report published by the World Association of Newspapers says that there 6 key factors that have affected how newsrooms today function. All of these directly link to the development of the internet and the subsequent platforms that have developed from it. The news today is more interactive, allowing for more conversation rather than one way communications. People are aware of what it is that they want to know

How it was to be presented and when. Now, information is easily accessible to almost everybody. The media has often been referred to as the watchdog of information. This phrase described how it has always been the role of journalists to keep an eye out for information and then report back to the people all information. However, this also gave the media power to control the information that they wanted the people to know. In recent times however, that power has shifted to the people. No longer can journalists hold back information or not report certain events, the people unlimited ways of accessing information and are not afraid of sharing it, in a way they have become ‘secondary gatekeepers’ of information. (Singer,J.B.;