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Mam Sobia Farooq
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Introduction to Mass Communication
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BS(IT) 7th semester
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University of Gujrat

Journalism
 Journalism is the activity of gathering,
assessing, creating, and presenting news and
information. It is also the product of these
activities
 Journalism is a form of writing that tells
people about things that really happened, but
that they might not have known about already.

Journalism Types
 Types by medium
 Print
 Photo
 Broadcast
 Online
 Types by message
 Sports
 Business
 Crime
 Politics

Online Journalism
 Journalism is the science or the art
of writing or the business of
managing, editing or writing for,
newspapers, journals or magazines
collectively over the internet

History of Online Journalism
 1993
 October: First journalism site on
the Web is launched at the
University of Florida. There now
are about 200 web servers in the
world
 Dec. 8: First article about the web
appears in the New York Times
 1994

 1995
 April 19: Oklahoma City Bombing
The first major event in which
people turn to the Internet for
current information

 1997
 The Internet becomes part of a
major news story when members
of the Heaven’s Gate cult create a
website before committing suicide
 1998
 Early reports of U.S. President
Clinton’s involvement with White
House intern Monica Lewinsky
demonstrate how a small
independent news site can seize a
national news agenda

 2004
 The Facebook website was
launched on February 4, 2004,
by Mark Zuckerberg, along with
fellow Harvard College students
and roommates
 2006
 Twitter was created in March 2006
by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz
StoneS and Evan Williams and
launched in July, whereby the
service rapidly gained worldwide
popularity.

 2013
 Instagram
“arrives”
 Instagram debuted in June 2013

Medium
 Internet
 Social Media
 E-paper
 Blogs
 Portals
 Etc.

People
 Javed Chaudhry  Hassan Nisar

Use of online Journalism
 Main Stream News sites
 CNN
 BBC
 Jang
 Index and Category Sites
 Social sites

Use of online Journalism
 Meta and Comment sites
 When people speak, they spend the
majority of their time communicating
what they want you to know. However,
at times they step back from the actual
topic and make a comment about the
topic like:
 “It is very important that you
understand that …”
 “I want you to know that …”
 Share and Discussion Sites
 Group weblogs

Advantages of Online Journalism
 Web journalism is search-based
 The sites can be accessed 24/7 from
the newspaper’s online archives
 The website can be updated round-
the-clock
 A newspaper is constrained for
space, and is often forced to cut or
drop stories

Advantages of Online Journalism
 Feedback
 A media website fulfils a long
cherished dream of all newspaper
readers
 A media website can be accessed
from anywhere in the world
 A news website can publish news
stories as video reports or
multimedia stories, making web
journalism a highly versatile news
medium

Disadvantages of Online Journalism
 Text-based
 No physical cues
 Information overload
 Does not appeal well to the older
generations
 Time lag

Disadvantages of Online Journalism
 Inefficient
 Isolation
 Not everyone has access to the
Internet
 Does away with certain jobs dealing
with printing of newspapers

Positive impact for society
 Globalization
 Update w.r.t Time
 Time Saving
 Source of earning
 Freedom of writing

Negative Impact for society
 Health Issues
 Time Waste
 Communication Skills
 Wrong information

Ethics in online Journalism
 No plagiarism  Disclose, disclose, disclose

 No gifts or money for coverage  Check it out, then tell the truth

 Be honest

Functions of Mass Communication
 Information
 Entertainment
 Educate
 Surveillance

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