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Millions of people in countries such as the United States and South Korea have taken up blogging. Many blogs have rather little viewers; Some blogs are read by millions every month.Social media sites, especially Twitter and Facebook, have become an important source of breaking news information and links to news websites disseminating. Twitter declared in 2012: "It's like being delivered a newspaper whose headlines will always be interesting to you - you can find news as it's happening, more about the topics that are important to you, and get real in real time." Phone cameras have normalized citizen photojournalism.
Michael Schudson, professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, said that "Everything we thought we once knew was about the journalism needs to be rethought in the Digital Age." Today the work of journalism can be done anywhere and done well. It is no more than a reporter and a laptop. In that way, journalistic authority seems to be more individual- and less institutionalized.
But does the person reporter always be an actual journalist? Or can journalistic work be done from anywhere and by anyone? These are the questions that refer to the journalistic practice and the definition of "news" itself. As Schudson has given the emphasis to the answer, not easily found; "The groundbreaks are on the move, and the experience for both those who work in the field and those who study outside it dizzying".
These alterations are inevitably the basic ramifications for the contemporary ecology of news. "The boundaries of journalism, which just a few years ago, seem relatively clear, and permanent, have become less distinct, and this blurring, while potentially the foundation of progress as well as it's risk of source, has a new set Of journalistic principles and practices ", Schudson puts it. It is really complex, but it seems to be the future.
Online news has also changed the geographic reach of individual news stories, diffusing readership to city-by-city markets to a potentially global audience. Because internet does not have "column inches" limit of print media, online news stories, but do not always, bundled with supplementary material. The medium of the wide web also enables hyperlinking, which allows readers to navigate to other pages related to the one they read.
Despite these changes, some studies have concluded that internet news coverage is fairly homogenous and dominated by news agencies. And journalists working with online media are significantly different criteria for newsworthiness than print journalists.
The early internet, known as ARPANET, was controlled by the US Department of Defense and used mostly by academics. It was available to a wide public with the release of the Netscape browser in 1994. At first, news websites were mostly archives of print publications. An early online newspaper was the Electronic Telegraph, published by The Daily Telegraph. A 1994 earthquake in California was one of the first big stories to be reported online in real time.
In 1995, the release of web browser Netscape made news sites accessible to more people. On the day of the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, people flocked to newsgroups and chatrooms to discuss the situation and share information. The Oklahoma City daily posted news to its site within hours. Two of the only news sites capable of hosting images, the San Jose Mercury News and Time magazine, posted photographs of the scene.
Quantitatively, the internet has massively expanded the volume volume of news items to one person. The speed of news flow to individuals also has a new plateau. This insurmountable flow of news can cause people and cause information overload. Zbigniew Brzezinski called this "technetronic era", which is "global reality increasingly absorb the individual, involves him, and even occasionally him overwhelms."
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