Online Journalism
My article is about social media called Online Journalism. Online Journalism is the new trend among journalists. Online Journalism is similar to blogging. The difference is blogging is usually more to personal experience, regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or opinions. Online Journalism is more about publishing news reports and distributed via the internet.
Like bloggers, online journalists need to have skills in order to keep themselves valuable to their publishers and readers. Key skills that they need to have are being passionate in their work, be fast to gather and cover piece of news and is willing to post several post a day, build a community of loyal supporters and readers, use social media tools like Twitter to get in touch with the latest news and know how search engines work. But most importantly, journalists have to be capable of writing great content and knowing how to deliver it efficiently online in order to succeed.
Other than just publishing their news reports online, online journalists can become community marketers. For example, one of the listed skills above that is required is to be fast to gather news and is willing to update several times a day. They also must be able to multitask. It is because to have a good blog is figuring out the right mix between the news that can get maximum search engines. With that they can build an audience.
Online Journalism has affected our society in bad and good way. The good way is that it has attracted mostly young people as nowadays the youngsters rarely watch the news. They prefer to surf the net and through Online Journalism, the youngsters can get up to date with the news and will not be left behind. This way they can rely on the internet to get the latest news. The bad way is more people will not watch the news and newspapers will not be bought. Since they can easily get news online at any time of the day and for free they will not be bothered to watch the news on TV as they rely on the internet to get updated and newspapers will be useless and they will feel that it is a waste of money when they can search the news online. And also internet is faster and convenient.
In conclusion, there are many new media that creates impact on the society. New media allows people to communicate and expressed themselves. And one example I have stated is Online Journalism. Communicate in a way that when the news is shared, people can share their views and opinions about the articles. And that is when they expressed themselves freely. Online Journalism creates both bad and good impact to the society.
References that I have used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_journalism
