Digital Journalism - All You Need To Know: Introduction
Summary
TLDRDigital journalism is the creation and distribution of news online in various formats, offering interactivity and multiple formats like podcasts, long-form articles, and videos. It allows audiences to actively participate and share content, impacting breaking news speed but also raising disinformation concerns. Journalists must be accountable for online publications, and the internet serves as a source for stories, with social media updates and audience submissions shaping news coverage.
Takeaways
- 🌐 Digital journalism involves producing and publishing news on the internet in various formats.
- 📈 It offers the best of all mediums, providing flexibility in how stories are presented, from long-form articles to tweets.
- 🎙️ Podcasts and live streams have replaced radio, while photographs and videos have become more versatile, replacing traditional print and TV.
- 🔄 Digital journalism allows for multi-format storytelling, enabling stories to appear in different formats simultaneously.
- 🤝 Interactivity is a key feature, where audiences can participate in the story, not just consume it.
- 🔗 Digital stories can include embedded links, interactive charts, maps, and even 3D virtual experiences.
- 📢 Digital content is highly shareable, impacting the speed of breaking news and the spread of information.
- ⚠️ The shareability of digital journalism has also led to the spread of disinformation and misinformation.
- 💬 Digital journalism encourages audience participation through comments, giving users a sense of ownership over the news.
- 🔍 The internet serves as a primary or secondary source for journalists, providing access to a wealth of research and information.
- 🌟 Digital journalism is dynamic and will continue to evolve as the internet itself evolves.
Q & A
What is digital journalism?
-Digital journalism is the act of producing and publishing news on the internet in a variety of formats.
How does digital journalism differ from print, TV, and radio?
-Digital journalism offers interactivity, the ability to present stories in multiple formats simultaneously, and the capacity for audiences to become interactive participants.
What are some examples of how digital journalism can present stories in different formats?
-Digital journalism can present stories as podcasts, voice notes, live streams, varying lengths of text, photographs, gifs, short video clips, or long videos on platforms like YouTube.
What is the significance of interactivity in digital journalism?
-Interactivity allows journalists to present stories in a way that the audience can become a part of what is being presented, transforming them from passive consumers to active participants.
Can you provide an example of interactivity in digital journalism?
-An example is embeddable links in stories that allow users to click and go to primary sources or related content.
How does digital journalism's shareability impact news dissemination?
-Digital journalism's shareability allows audiences to share content across communities and individuals, making it faster than print or TV for breaking news but also leading to disinformation and misinformation.
What role do comments play in digital journalism?
-Comments in digital journalism give users greater ownership of the news, allowing them to comment on stories and make their opinions a part of the narrative.
How does digital journalism use the internet as a source?
-The internet serves as a primary or secondary source for journalists, providing access to a vast amount of research and information that defines the story.
Can you give an example of how digital journalism uses social media updates?
-CNN used social media updates to keep users informed about the earthquake in Haiti, curating content from audience submissions.
What is the final major quality that defines digital journalism according to the script?
-The final major quality that defines digital journalism is its ability to evolve with the internet, being defined in many new ways as the internet continues to change.
How does the role of a digital journalist differ from that of a traditional journalist?
-A digital journalist must be adept at producing content in various formats and engaging with an interactive audience, whereas a traditional journalist typically focuses on one medium and a passive audience.
Outlines
🌐 Digital Journalism: An Overview
Digital journalism is defined as the production and publication of news on the internet in various formats. It combines the best aspects of print, TV, and radio, offering a wide range of choices for storytelling. Podcasts and live streams have replaced radio, while the internet's flexibility allows for stories of any length, from a tweet to a 50,000-word PDF. Photography can also be presented in various sizes and scales. The interactivity of digital journalism allows audiences to engage with the content, making them active participants rather than passive consumers. This interactivity can range from simple embeddable links to complex 3D virtual experiences, as demonstrated by a New York Times project on the spread of the coronavirus in an aircraft cabin.
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Keywords
💡Digital Journalism
💡Interactivity
💡Multimedia
💡Sharability
💡Disinformation
💡Misinformation
💡Commenting
💡Primary Source
💡Curation
💡Accountability
💡Evolution
Highlights
Digital journalism is the act of producing and publishing news on the internet in various formats.
Digital journalism offers the best of all mediums, giving audiences and journalists a ton of choice in terms of how to present a story.
Radio is replaced by podcasts, voice notes, and live streams in digital journalism.
Print journalism can be as long or as short as the internet allows, from a tweet to a 50,000-word PDF.
TV journalism is replaced by gifs, short video clips, or long videos on platforms like YouTube.
Journalists' stories can appear in multiple formats simultaneously in digital journalism.
Interactivity is the greatest defining characteristic of digital journalism, allowing the audience to become part of the story.
Digital journalism enables stories to have interactivity, such as embeddable links, interactive charts, and 3D virtual experiences.
Digital content is completely sharable, impacting breaking news and leading to faster dissemination than print or TV.
The shareability of digital journalism has led to the problem of disinformation and misinformation.
Users can comment on digital journalism, giving them greater ownership of the news and making their opinions matter.
Digital journalism holds journalists accountable for their online publications.
The internet serves as a primary or secondary source for journalists, providing access to vast amounts of research.
Digital journalism can be entirely curated from the audience by raising a call to action for information sharing.
CNN uses social media updates to keep users informed about events like the earthquake in Haiti.
Digital journalism is defined by the nature of the internet and will continue to evolve as the internet does.
Transcripts
[Music]
what is digital journalism how is it
different from Print TV and radio and
can it help journalism
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Thrive hi my name is John HCK and I'm
the chief digital strategist and editor
at dawn.com I've been a digital
journalist for 10 years so let's see
what I actually do at its most basic
digital journalism is the act of
producing and Publishing news on the
internet in a wide variet of formats in
some ways digital journalism offers the
best of all the mediums giving the
audience and journalists a ton of choice
in terms of how to present a story radio
is replaced by podcasts voice notes live
streams print can be as long or as short
as the internet allows which means you
could do an entire PDF of 50,000 words
or a tweet which is just a few
characters similarly photographs can be
very very small or infinitely large in
scale and completely zoomable similarly
TV is now replaced by gifs it's replaced
by short short video clips or it can be
long videos which can go on uh platforms
like YouTube so for a journalist this
means their story can appear in multiple
formats at the very same time this is
great for a multi-dimensional
multitasking journalist or a huge huge
challenge for journalists who are stuck
in one medium and the mindset of a
single medium keep in mind the
differences don't just end here the
greatest defining characteristic of
digital journalism perhaps is
interactivity this is where journalists
can present their stories in a way where
the audience itself can become a part of
what is being presented you see each
user is no longer a passive consumer of
news in fact they can be an interactive
participant so for example a story can
have the simplest of interactivity in
the form of embeddable links where you
could click and go to a primary source
or other item related to the content and
if you continue to look at it stories
can get as complex as you like in the
digital space this can include
interactive charts it can include Maps
which you can zoom into and interact
with and at its highest level you can
have full 3D virtual experiences which
an audience can jump right into take a
look at this New York Times project
which looks at the Corona virus and how
it spreads inside the cockpit of an
aircraft The Experience itself lets you
go straight in and assume the position
of the actual passenger so you can see
how the disease spreads across the cabin
secondly digital content is completely
sharable what this means is that
audiences can take what they like or
dislike and share it across the
communities and individuals that they
are constantly in touch with this has
had a major impact on breaking news
where digital journalism is now far
faster than print or TV however at the
same time it has led to the problem of
disinformation and misinformation
finally digital journalism can be
commented on both on the platforms of
the Publishers as well as across the
entire internet and social media what
this has done is given users far greater
ownership of the news itself they can
comment on it and their opinion matters
because it becomes a part of the story
itself however at the same time what
this means is there is greater
accountability for journalists who
publish online this leads us to the
final major quality which defines
digital journalism which is sources the
internet is no longer just a place for
publishing it can actually be your
primary source or your secondary source
or give you access to a vast amount of
research which defines your story itself
take a look at this example of CNN
covering the earthquake in Haiti if you
take a look every little while they are
using social media updates to keep users
AB breast with what's happening on
ground at its best a story can be
entirely curated from the audience
Itself by raising a call to action
asking them to share information around
a particular topic or event from the
earlier example we can see how CNN calls
upon its audience to submit photos
videos and information about the
earthquake directly to them to conclude
digital journalism is defined by the
very nature of the internet itself and
unlike some of the other mediums as the
internet continues to evolve we can
expect digital journalism to be defined
in many new ways as well
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