Online journalism allows for global distribution of information through the internet. It provides unlimited space, interactivity through user participation and comments, and immediacy of publishing. However, it also faces weaknesses like issues of credibility due to a lack of gatekeeping and verification, accuracy versus speed of publishing, and the digital divide.

2.  Newspaper/ TV Advertising revenues are
down.
 A few newspapers in the world has already
closed down its print edition while continuing
the online edition.
 A media to stay!

3.  The history of media shows arrival of new
media changes/constrains the role of
existing media.

4.  Define online journalism
 History of online journalism
 Strengthens of online journalism
 Weaknesses of online journalism

5.  The journalistic activities primarily conducted
for disseminating information through
internet
 Online journalism is JOURNALISM
 Online simply defines the method of delivery
to the audience.

6.  The internet: The greatest advance for
communication since the printing press
 An important information source- as
important as traditional media

7.  The Friday Times
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/
 Khabrain – Urdu Khabrain, Daily Khabrain Newspaper
http://www.khabrain.com
 Bbc Urdu – BbcUrdu, Bbc Urdu News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/
 Mashriq – Daily Mashriq, Roznama Mashriq
http://www.dailymashriq.com.pk/
 Express – Daily Express, Roznama Express
http://www.express.com.pk/
 Daily Islam
http://www.dailyislam.com

11. o Ted Nelson,harvard sociology student, conceptualize hypertext
Gives a lecture in which is covered in students newspaper. The first
print reference of “hypertext”
Appears, Feb 3-1965.
o ARPANET computer network, the forerunner
of today’s internet, created by the US defense
Department in 1969.

12.  The BBC files for a patent on teledata, the first teletext system in
1971.
 A loop of “pages” broadcast on TV
 Not interactive.
 Service is limited to a few hundred
available pages.
 Slow.

13.  British post office’s research laboratory
Demonstrates view data the first videotext
Service in 1974.
It’s interactive, supporting two way
Communication.

15. Early computer based
Online dial-up services emerge.
These are closed system- only subscribers
have access.
.

16.  1983: Time Magazine names the computer “Machine of the year”
 1984: Apple introduces the macintosh computer. Cost $ 2,495 US
with built in B & W monitor. within 75 days 50,000 are sold.
 1985: 22 nations involved in videotext and teletext.
 1986: computers readily available in US universities.
 Computers becoming cheaper and more powerful; first personal
printer appears; ($ 7,000 US for an Apple laser writer)
 1988: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is developed by finnish graduate
student jarkko oikarinen.
 DARPA makes the internet public.

17.  Hypertext markup language is invented by Tim berners –lee in
1990.
 1992 July : Lynx, a non-graphical web and Gopher (FTP) is
released.
 1992 November: reasonably reliable servers

18.  October 1993 first journalism site is launched at the university of
Florida.
 Dec 8, First article about the web appears in the New York Times

19.  January 19th the first newspaper to regularly published on the web,
the Palo Alto weekly in California, begins twice-weekly
Postings of its full contents.
 April: The Yahoo “Internet Index”
is started by standford Ph.D Candidates
David Filo and Jerry Yang.

20.  Unlimited space
 Unlike traditional media, online media do not have
space/time restraint
› Global Distribution
 Global reach is basic feature of online media
 Convergence
› multimedia-Convergence of text, graphics, audio
and video

21.  Hypertext
o Text that links to other content
 Interactive
o Increased ability of the public to actively participate in the
discussion and / construction/ control of content.
o Internet provides a greater level of audience participation

22.  Storage and retrieval
o Content are storable permanently which is easy to search
 And, most importantly, immediacy
o Publishing is quick and easy

23.  Global reach
 Easy publication
 Interactivity
 Multimedia possibility
 Permanency
 Timelessness
 Unlimited space

24.  Mushroom
o news sites, journalist and news/opinion
 Lack of credibility
o Its not easy to distinguish between good and bad news sites
 Ethical questions
o Privacy, accuracy vs. speed, copyright and advertising
 Digital divide
o The gap between haves and have-nots

25.  Information overloaded
 Accuracy
 Credibility
 Opinion-based
 Individual
 Manipulative