Unfortunately, censorship, pedaling a particular ideology or party line is the norm now.
Neutrality of media is a thing of the bygone era. Digital news websites has less reporting and more analysis.ĭigital journalism is an interactive medium where the comments and reactions to a story are quick, editors and writers are constantly put on the spot by the readers making them more accountable. The 5Ws and a H ( what, when, where, why, who and how) makes up the bulk of the newspapers with barely two pages of editorial opinion. While a print journalist may toil to produce an elaborate in-depth article, for a digital journalist, given that the content is consumed mostly on the 5 inches screen of a mobile phones, brevity is important. While print journalists take pains to carefully frame headlines, a web journalist will think more in terms of the ease of discovery of a story. They have to be in tune with the trending topics and package the content in an accessible manner by using multimedia tools. That is why web journalists are expected to know about the workings of the search engines and the use of keywords. It has catapulted news from a once-a-day product to an ongoing event to be consumed real time on social media and news portals.įor digital journalism web traffic is God.
They give real time news and analysis without the shouting matches of the television news rooms.ĭigital journalism sets itself apart from the print and T.V. The Wire, Scroll, the Quint are producing interesting content with ‘mobile-first' distribution strategy as mobile devices account for 79 percent of web traffic in India, compared to 50 percent globally. The rapid boom in mobile internet users coincided with the rise in digital journalism scene. With low cost devices and better 3G/4G internet speed, the traditional journalistic landscape is slowly giving way to digital or online journalism. Next only to China, India has 500 million internet users. Well, the romance of newspapers may soon be a nostalgic memory of the yesteryears. A cup of hot tea with the newspaper is the quintessential start to mornings in India.
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