SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS

COMMUNICATION

Subject : New Media Technology

Topic: Online technologies

used in

cyber journalism

Submitted to: Submitted by:

Reena Arya Smriti Singh

MAMC IIyr

Introduction of Cyber Journalism…..

• Journalism is any non-fiction or documentary narrative that reports or analyzes facts and events firmly rooted in time (either topical or historical) which are selected and arranged by reporters, writers, and editors to tell a story from particular point of view. Journalism has traditionally been published in print, presented on film, and broadcast on television and radio. "Online“ includes many venues. Most prominent is the World Wide Web, plus commercial online information services like America Online. Simple Internet email also plays a big role. Also important are CD-ROMs (often included with a book) linked to a web site or other online venue, plus intranets and private dial-up bulletin board systems.

• Cyber Journalism refers to news content produced or distributed via internet particularly material created by journalists who works for main stream market driven news orgnizations.

• The definition of cyber journalist has gone beyond the domain of journalistic education. Anybody who is techno-savvy can be a cyber journalist. Hence, questions of epistemology, professionalism, responsibility and credibility have now become an epitome of cyber journalism.

Features of Cyber/Online journalism

• Real time: News can be published in real time. Online Journalists can provide

updating breaking news and events as they happen.

• Shifted time: Contents published online can be archived

so that viewers can read them at a later time.

• Multimedia: Online Journalists can include images,

music, sound, video etc.

• Interactivity: Online Journalists can add hyperlinks

to their writings. These links relate their writings to

other contents related to their subjects.

• Readers or participants can respond instantly to

materials published by online journalists in the

form of email, comment, and threaded discussion.

On-line Technologies for Cyber Journalism

• News Aggregator

• Hyperlocal news sites

• Blogs

• Photoshop

• Web designing

• Layout designing

News Aggregator

• A news aggregator is "software that periodically reads a set of news

sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and

displays them in reverse-chronological order

• How does a news aggregator work?

Every hour the aggregator reads the "feeds" you're subscribed to, as

few as a half-dozen, or as many as you like. When you see an item

that you want to amplify with your own comments, or pass on to

others in your organization or interest group, with a couple of clicks

you can "route" it to the home page of your weblog. Aggregators and

weblog software are flip-sides of the same idea. Weblogs are for

writing, aggregators for reading, and at the intersection is routing.

Hyperlocal news sites

• information gathering about a geographically-specific community that

is part or was once part of a broader coverage area or focus.

Features of Hyper local news sites• Community voices

• Story submission page

• Fix-it callout

• Community calendar

• Donation page

• Social media

• Video

• Contact page

• Reader-submitted photos

• Aggregation

Blogs

• A blog (a truncation of the expression weblog) is a discussion or

informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of

discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological

order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were

usually the work of a single individual occasionally of a small group,

and often covered a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs"

(MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of

authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other

media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups and similar

institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise

of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs

and single-author blogs into societal newstreams. Blog can also be

used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Photoshop

• An image editing software developed and manufactured by

Adobe Systems Inc. Photoshop is considered one of the

leaders in photo editing software. The software allows users

to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on digital

photos. The software is particularly popular amongst

professional photographers and graphic designers.

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Web designing

• Describes the tasks of designing HTML driven web pages to be displayed over the World Wide Web. Web design encompasses a number of important elements including color, layout, and overall graphical appearance. Web designers consider the site's audience, function, and traffic to specific sections when deciding designs. Web design has become a very lucrative business as more and more companies create websites.

Layout designing

• Master plan or blueprint of a printed or published work (such as an advertisement, book, magazine, newspaper, or website) that lays out the arrangement of its different graphic elements (such as body copy, colors, headlines, illustrations, scale). It establishes the overall appearance, relative importance, and relationships between the graphic elements to achieve a smooth flow of information (message) and eye movement for maximum effectiveness or impact. Often alternative layouts (called roughs) are prepared to explore different arrangements before the final layout is made for printing or production. See also page layout program

Future of cyber journalism

• No one can deny that online reporting has opened a gate for new

technology and creative ways in which the world is changing at

a rapid pace and technology just keeps evolving. It’s a

continuous process of technology over mind and media literacy.

The more advancements that are being made, the more people

may struggle with having to learn to be tech-savvy. The growth

of technology is only going to change the face of journalism for

good. Cyber journalism is just another demonstration of how

news and journalism has given the internet/ new media a new

dimension.