“Networked Publics,” University of Southern California,
provides the following definition of Online Journalism,
“Online journalism refers to news content produced and/or
distributed via the Internet, particularly material created
by journalists who work for mainstream market driven
news organizations. While blogs and other emerging forms
of online news communication are widely acknowledged as
significantly influencing mainstream news content both on
and offline, they are considered here a distinct
phenomenon and treated under the category of alternative
media”

History:
The first type of digital journalism, called teletext, was invented in
the UK in 1970. Teletext is a system allowing viewers to choose
which stories they wish to read and see it immediately. The
information provided through teletext is brief and instant, similar
to the information seen in digital journalism today.
American journalist, Hunter S. Thompson relied on early digital
communication technology beginning by using a fax machine to
report from the 1971 US presidential campaign trail as
documented in his book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.
After the invention of teletext was the invention of videotext, of
which Prestel was the world’s first system, launching commercially
in 1979 with various British newspapers such as the Financial
Times lining up to deliver newspaper stories online through it.
Videotext closed down in 1986 due to failing to meet end-user

First Non- Geographical web
1992
First Geographical Web
1993
First Journalism Website
1993
First Online Newspaper
1994
“Palo
Alto weekly’’

Prospects & Challenges
(Prospects refers to chances or possibilities what is going to
happen in future)
Online journalism is the Future:
It’s the media to stay, because newspaper and TV revenues are
down. A few newspapers in the world has already closed down
its print edition while continuing to online edition. From the past
few decades almost every News organization has started their
online web pages, and the number of web pages are increasing
day by day.so, it can be expect that in future all newspaper will
shifted onto online by closing down their print editions. As
people feels more comfortable to access online because they
found such an amazing facilities like they can read the news

Does not have to wait for 24 hours to be
updated
Infinite choice
Flavored information
Video coverage
Interactivity
Personalization

So,
It can be say that it’s the media to stay
!

Print Media at decline
From past decades print media seems to
facing a little decline, and also in future it
may face big decline and shifting towards
online.
In the U.S., the newspaper industry is going
through a tough time. More and more
people are now using Internet to get news
and information. In July last year, the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) in America published a report titled,
“THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF
COMMUNITIES The changing media
landscape in a broadband age.” The report
said that as more and more people were

Here are the Graphs showing Traditional
media Decline…

Web continues to dominate….

The 2011 report says,
In December 2010, 41% of Americans cited the
internet as the place where they got “most
of their news about national and
international issues,” up 17% from a year
earlier. When it came to any kind of news,
46% of people now say they get news online
at least three times a week, surpassing
newspapers (40%) for the first time.

Some causes of Print Media decline:
Slow medium
So many publications
No Interactivity
short life
low quality colour reproduction
cannot deliver sound and motion
messages compete with one another

 Limited Information and
News
 Lesser readership
 Difficulty in distribution
 Difficult to access
 Expanses versus income

Print media facing ignorance since 1990s in
Pakistan, but today electronic media (TV
channels) also at some ignorance because of
online journalism’s strengths (interactivity,
multimedia, and fast). It has great impact on
people of all age groups. It may say that its future
will be so bright. But traditional media will not
die.

Challenges:
Speed and accuracy, inaccurate news
convergence
limited readership and illiteracy
high cost of surfing
No ethics
traditional media preference

Conclusion:
It may be concluded that, we have a positive vision of the
future of journalism and we don’t believe that the other
media are going to disappear. Despite of the fact that they
have the same function, they present different ways to
inform.
A lot of people believe in the extinction of the newspapers.
We think that newspapers, television and radio are
compatible with Internet, and the duty of the journalist is
look for new functions for this media. On one hand, Internet
is a new media and has mistaken. On the other hand, our
society doesn’t like the changes. That’s why a lot of people
prefer the traditional media. Like this online journalism
face many challenges more.

ANY QUESTIONS???

Thank You…