Government proclamations, concerning royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health<\/em>, have been dubbed news since ancient times.<\/p>\n Humans exhibit a nearly universal desire to learn and share news<\/strong>, which they satisfy by talking to each other and sharing information.<\/p>\n Technological and social developments<\/strong>, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content.<\/p>\n The genre of news as we know it today is closely associated with the newspaper.<\/strong>Another corollary of the newness of news is that, as new technology enables new media to disseminate news more quickly, ’slower‘ forms of communication<\/em><\/strong> may move away from ’news‘ towards ‚analysis‘.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to some theories, „news<\/em><\/strong>“ is whatever the news industry sells Journalism, broadly understood along the same lines, is the act or occupation of collecting and providing news.<\/p>\n From a commercial perspective, news is simply one input, along with paper (or an electronic server<\/em>) necessary to prepare a final product for distribution.<\/p>\n A news agency supplies this resource „wholesale<\/em>“ and publishers enhance it for retail.<\/p>\n Quantitatively, the internet has massively expanded the sheer volume of news items available to one person. The speed of news flow to individuals has also reached a new plateau. This insurmountable flow of news can daunt people and cause information overload.<\/p>\n We can call this period<\/span><\/span> the „technetronic era“<\/em><\/strong>, in which „global reality increasingly absorbs the individual, involves him, and even occasionally overwhelms him.“<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In cases of government crackdowns or revolutions, the Internet<\/strong> has often become a major communication channel for news propagation<\/em>; while it’s a (relatively) simple act to shut down a newspaper, radio or television station, mobile devices such as smartphones and netbooks<\/em> are much harder to detect and confiscate.<\/p>\n The propagation of internet-capable mobile devices has also given rise to the CITIZEN JOURNALIST, who provide an additional perspective on unfolding events.<\/p>\n A professor at the University Graduate School of Journalism<\/strong>, has said that “ everything we thought we once knew about journalism needs to be rethought in the <\/em>DIGITAL AGE.“<\/em><\/p>\n Today the work of journalism can be done from anywhere and done well. It requires no more than a reporter and a laptop. In that way, journalistic authority seems to have become more individual- and less institution-based.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Online news has also changed the geographic reach of individual news stories, diffusing readership from city-by-city markets to a potentially global audience. Because each individual has a particular point of view, it is recognized that there can be no absolute objectivity in news reporting.<\/p>\n Journalists can collectively shift their opinion over what is a controversy up for debate and what is an established fact. Some commentators on news values have argued that journalists‘ training in news values itself represents a systemic bias of the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Social media is an increasingly disruptive force on the media landscape. It challenges traditional, mainstream media to reconsider how they operate.<\/p>\n Social media often releases information about which mainstream media might not have been aware, and information that mainstream media might have tried to ignore.It can offer a wider, more diverse perspective on life than that covered by traditional media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
News is simply one input<\/a>, along with paper or an electronic server necessary to prepare a final product for distribution.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Online journalism is news that is reported on the Internet<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Story<\/a><\/strong> highlights<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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News values are the professional norms of journalism.<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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The importance of social media in news production and news dissemination.<\/h3>\n
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The challenges and opportunities presented by social media<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n