The document discusses online journalism, defining it as journalism conducted primarily through the internet, and outlines its strengths such as global reach and multimedia possibilities, alongside weaknesses like lack of credibility and information overload. It covers the history of online journalism from the 1960s to its rise in Pakistan, indicating a growing trend towards digital reporting. The conclusion expresses a positive outlook for the future of online journalism, suggesting it will coexist with traditional media rather than replace it.

1. ONLINE
JOURNALISM
Mass-
Communication

2. WHAT?
• Define Online Journalism?
• Strengthens of online journalism
• Weaknesses of online journalism
• History of online journalism
• Frequently used terminologies
• Future of online journalism in Pakistan
• Conclusion

3. ONLINE
JOURNALISM
• The journalistic activates primarily
conducted for disseminating
information through internet.
•Online journalism is a JOURNALISM.
• Online simply defines the method of
delivery to the audience.

4. •The Internet: the greatest
advance for communication
since the printing press.
•An important information
source as important as
traditional media.

5. ONLINE JOURNALISM
WEBSITES
•The Friday Times
http://www.thefridaytimes.com
•Khabrain: Urdu khabrain, Daliy
Khabrain newspaper
http://www.khabrain.com

6. • BBC Urdu
http://www.bbc.com.uk
• Daily Islam
http://www.dailyislam.com
• Express- Daily Express, Roznama
Express
http://www.express.com.pk

7. PAKISTANI ONLINE WEBSITES

8. STRENGTHS OF ONLINE
JOURNALISM
•Global reach
•Easy publication
•Multimedia possibility
•Permanency
•Timelessness

9. WEAKNESSES OF ONLINE
JOURNALISM
•Mushroom
•Lack of credibility
•Ethical question
•Digital divide

10. •Information overloaded
•Accuracy
•Opinion based
•Manipulative

11. HISTORY OF ONLINE
JOURNALISM
• 1960
• Ted nelson, Harvard sociology student,
conceptualize hypertext
gives a lecture in is covered his students
newspaper.The first print of reference of
hypertext appear in 3-02-1965
• ARPANET : computer network, the forerunner
of today’s internet, created by the US defense
Department in 1969.

12. • 1970
• The BBC files for patent on tele-data , the
first tele-text system
in 1971.
• A loop of pages broadcast on TV.
• No interactive
• Service is limited to a few hundred
available pages.
• Slow

13. •British post office’s research
laboratory demonstrates view data
, the first video text service in 1974
•Interactive, supporting two way
communication
•1974
•Tele-text ---video text --- computer

14. • 1981- 82
• Early computer based online dial up service
emerge
• Closed system , only subscribers have access
• 1983
• Time magazine names the computer ‘the
machine of the year’
• 1984
• Apple introduces a machine computer

15. • 1985
• 22 nations involved in video text and
teletext
• 1986
• Computers readily available in US
universities
Computer becomes cheaper and more
powerful first personal printer appears

16. • 1988
• Internet relay chat (IRC) in a
development by finnish graduate
student Jarkko Oikarnen
• DARPA makes the internet public
• 1990s
• Hypertext markup language is
invented by Tim Berners in 1990.

17. 1993
• in october 1st journalism site is
launched at the university of
florida
• In December 1st article about the
web appears in NewYork Times

18. • 1994
• In January the 1st newspaper to
regularly published on the web, the
Polo Aeto weekly in California begins
twice weekly.
• Posting of its full content
• April : the yahoo ‘internet index’ is
started by standard Ph.D candidates
David Filo and Jerry Yong.

19. FREQUENTLY USED TERMS
•ACE : an on-call reporter
•Add : copy to be added to a story
already written
•Angle : the approach or focus of a
story .This is sometimes known as
the peg

20. • B2B : business to business; describes a
business whose primary customers are other
business
• Cut : to remove text
• Copy writing : creating the text for an
advertisement
• CIOJ: the chartered institute of journalists
• Death-knock : calling at the house of a
bereaved relative or friend when reporting
on the death . Also known as door stepping .

21. • Editor : someone who prepares
material for print or broadcast
• Exclusivity : when an advert appears
exclusively on a page, rather than
being in rotation with other adds .
• GIF : A type of picture file, often used
for images that include text

22. • Break : when a story is first published.
• Kill : to cancel or delete a story
• Pay TV: paid subscription service for
TV
• Scoop : an exclusive or first published
story
• Wi-Fi : wireless internet or network
connection

23. FUTURE OF ONLINE
JOURNALISM IN PAKISTAN
• In the present era the fast and vast growth
of internet has introduced absolutely a
new medium of journalism, called online
journalism .
• As in rest of the world online journalism
has gained good popularity in Pakistan as
well and it has given a new trend to the
journalism and reporting .

24. As in Pakistan electronic media is
growing fast day by day and so
many tv channels are taking place,
which shows a great success of
electronic media and it will not be
out of place to say that in future
online journalism will grow very
rapidly towards the sky .

25. CONCLUSION
• It may be concluded that we have a
positive vision of the future of online
journalism and we don’t believe that the
other media are going to disappear.
• Despite of the fact that they have same
function, they present different ways to
inform.

26. • A lot of people believe in the extinction of
the news papers we think that newspapers ,
television and radio are compatible with
internet and the duty of the journalist is to
look for the new functions for this media .
• on the other hand our society does not like
the changes , that’s why a lot of people prefer
traditional media like this online journalism
face many challenges as history witness.

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