Online multimedia journalism is the process of combining text, images, sound, videos and graphics, to tell an interesting story with the use of the new technologies and internet.

2.  the job of writing reports for
newspapers, magazines, radio and
television.”--(Pearson: 206).
 Ganiyu (2004) defines journalism as
“the job of gathering and
dissemination
 news and views about the society
through the means of the mass
media

3.  multimedia as a concept which
accommodates the processing of text,
audio, visuals and graphics into one
medium for different people at the same
time.
 The power of multimedia is the
opportunity available to people to
interact with these components to their
delight. In other words feedback
mechanism is assured.

4.  Online is the condition of being
connected to a network of computers
or other devices.
 The term is frequently used to
describe someone who is currently
connected to the Internet.

5.  As the media share of digital revolution.
 it combines the core journalism skills of
reporting, editing and news production,
features and programmes.
 These roles are now being complimented
with appropriate software to make our task
less laborious and more interesting.

6.  is the process of combining text, images,
sound, videos and graphics, to tell an
interesting story.
 Multimedia journalists on the other hand,
often work for newspapers, radio or
television stations or use computers in
social media areas.

7.  New technologies will solidify this trend.
 Multimedia stories require additional skills
from journalists, but provide readers with
more choices to interact and be informed.
 The stories become more enjoyable and
may help some readers better understand
an issue.

9.  online journalism places far more power in
the hands of the user, allowing the reader
to challenge the traditional role of the
publication as the gatekeeper of news and
information.
 The user can depend on the gatekeeper to
select and filter the news in the tradition
manner, or the user can drill down to the
basic documents of a story.

10.  In short, the user can look over the
shoulder of the reporter by researching
the original documents and easily
comparing one reporter’s story with
those of others by scanning news
publications throughout the country.
 Archives also become easily accessible
through online Journalism initiative.

11.  online journalism opens up new ways of
storytelling, primarily through the technical
components of the new medium.
 Simply put, online journalists can provide a
variety of media— text, audio, video, and
photographs— unlike other media.
 Data searching provides a means to access
information unable in other media

12.  online journalism can provide
outlets for nontraditional means
of news and information.
 A.J. Leibling captures this vividly
when he said: ”Freedom of the
press belongs to those who own
one.”
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

13.  We are in the information age, the age of
computers, and the age of internet.
 Much of the information making the rounds today
comes through the internet.
 While traditional media– newspapers, magazines,
radio and television - as we used to know them still
remain relevant today, there is no doubt that
computers and the internet have become dominant
and have successfully incorporated the former.

14.  The coming of the computer and the internet
has also added some distinctiveness to
journalism as a profession, making it more
vibrant.
 Traditional media have been forced to adapt
to and adopt the new media for more reach
and accessibility.
 The beauty of this new media is that it is not
subjected to national boundaries nor is it
easily susceptible to censorship.

15.  Online journalism is also cheap to produce and transmit,
unlike traditional media.
 Apart from your initial investment in computer
hardware, software, and internet connectivity, the
reporter, producer or media entrepreneur may not need
to keep on pouring money into buying expensive
consumables or raw materials such as newsprint, plates,
ink or even printing press.
 In other words, online journalism is cheap to produce
and reaches farther than the traditional media

16.  Communication and feed back on the new media is
also instantaneous.
 An e-mail sent out or web page uploaded can be
instantly received or accessed once the receiver opens
his computer and logs on to the correct address.
 This also makes the new media highly interactive, and
has given rise to a new phenomenon called citizen
journalism, whereby non journalists not trained in the
art of the profession engage in the task of gathering
and dissemination information.

17.  Another distinctive feature of multimedia and online
journalism is the links provided on news websites to
other websites where the reader can access stories
similar to the one he is reading.
 The link may take the reader to similar stories that are
current or that are in the archives of the same news
organization whose website he is surfing or that of
other organizations.
 A single story may provide several links, thus placing
at the disposal of the reader, access to more
information than the traditional media can possibly
achieve at one sitting.

19.  Having linkages in a story or on a
website, however, has its own draw
backs.
 It can distract the reader from the
story he is reading and in fact take
him away from your website
completely and he may never come
back to that website or story again.

20.  Except a reader or researcher is highly
focused or the story is extremely
engaging, the reader can easily get lost
in cyberspace.
 As you go from one link to the other
and from one interesting story to
another, it is easy for the reader or the
researcher to get carried away and
forget his original mission.
 In this process more time may have
been spent.

21.  also known as "public", "participatory",
"democratic", "guerrilla" or "street" journalism is
based upon public citizens "playing an active role
in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing,
and disseminating news and information.“
 It poses difficulties to the audience about what to
believe.
 It has limited audience in some cases.

23. when the people
formerly known as the
audience employ the
press tools they have in
their possession to
inform one another.

24.  Though, there is no unanimity and agreement on the name of this method of
collecting, analyzing and disseminating news by the citizenry for the general
public, it is to be noted that its practice has increased over the last decade.
 And like the traditional journalism, it aims to inform and educate, hold people
and authority to account, document and interpret development and changes.
 Citizen journalism is useful to society at two levels:
1. While on one hand it educates and informs the society on the other hand
2. it gives them the opportunity to tell and report their stories.

25.  For citizen journalism to have a greater
impact on traditional journalism and play an
important role in the society, it needs to
be organized, bound by rules and
codes of ethics, and those who
engage in it need to understand
the guidelines that must be
followed to publish news.

26.  Citizen journalism had really pushed its limits
with the advancements of digital media
technology.
 “Before the internet only professional journalist
had access to technology and organizational
infrastructure to publish their work to a large
audience” (Roos, 2011).
 Before the internet sharing information with the
public was not quite as easy.

27.  Citizen journalism is controversial because it is not
professional journalism.
 Real journalist fact check, name source, and also search
opinions of both sides.
 Despite all of the criticism of citizen journalism news media
somewhat relies on citizen journalism to incorporate
elements in their news programs and publications.
 News broadcasters solicit videos and photos to viewers,
and newspaper reporters update Twitter accounts and also
invite readers to participate and comment on posts.

28. THANK YOU FOR READING!
CHELDHAYE