Digital Journalism is one of the most appealing public mode of journalism, nowadays. It is one of the most favoured journalism in India.
Digital Journalism is also known as online journalism. It is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is dispensed via the internet as opposed to publishing via the print or broadcast. Rampant availability of Internet act as catalyst in the growth of digital journalism. The content can be in any form of digital journalism like audio, image, video etc. People can read their favourite newspaper through digital media. Some have contended that a greater degree of creativity can be exercised with digital journalism when compared to traditional journalism and traditional media. The digital aspect may be central to the journalistic message and remains to some stretch within the creative control of the writer, editor and publisher. People can use the internet to access news and different types of events 24 hours in a day. Youtube, Facebook, Whatsapp have become life stream of people all over the world. People enhance knowledge from digital media. The process of discussing different types of news are big portion of what makes for digital journalism. Digital journalism create a unique opportunities for people by making them available with plethora of news materials and other avenues.
Benefits of Digital journalism are:
Online sources are able to provide quick, efficient and accurate report of breaking news in a matter of second, providing society with a Synopsis of event as they occur.
Some of the disadvantage of digital journalism
- Fabricated content /Hoax
- Negative content
- Advertising
- News overload
- Paid subscription for daily news
The journalism aims to maintain its position as a leader of cutting edge journalism research, providing a difficult forum to advance scholarship that intersects with numerous disciplines. The digital journalism editorial team welcome interdisciplinary research in the form of original, conceptual and review articles and is committed to excellence, relevance and diversity.
Thus, digital media is rampant globally and is like a remarkable revolution of this modern era. Hence, it should be used cautiously otherwise it can be fatal enough to destroy the whole world in just of second.