Key factors affecting the preparation and delivery of online news

Journalist in the modern world of convergence must be equipped with the flexibility required to deliver news via a range of platforms, including social media, but the pressure to meet conflicting deadlines has increased with advances in modern technology. However, Journalist does not write a story relevant to all the audience on the face of the earth, instead, the audience will look for the certain category of news which actually relate to them. Besides, the newspaper industry delivers news daily throughout the day. Time is one of the biggest hindrances to the journalist because Journalist is the clock-watchers for the newspaper printing industry and has been always crucial for online journalist as they need to update news as it might get updated even by seconds. So, the need to rush and prepare latest online news to attract readers is most important and to ensure an up to date and factual account before the given deadline. Whereas, the online platform instantly updates the news to various social network platform as soon as they gathered enough information from sources. “There is an expectation that the modern journalist will send breaking news alerts via text message and email or blog post, followed by a radio or television broadcast a daily newspaper, then a comprehensive print and online story,” Lieb (2009, p.7). As a result, tradition journalist which bound to tradition reporting are required to upgrade their skills in order to produce a good online story.

Reference list

1. Jukes, S 2002, 'Real time responsibility: journalism's challenges in an instantaneous age'

Finding your own voice as a Journalist in online environment

In my opinion, online-based media where a journalist could publish a news with just a present of internet connection in the gadget device anywhere and anytime. However, the news in the age of Convergence is exciting and is the new and upcoming trend in Journalism. Consequently, the role of journalism has been challenged when the online user could upload and publish anything they wanted to in their very own self-thought information about the latest trend to the social platform. According to Mark Deuze, it is important to establish a delicate balance between finding you own voice as a journalist and engaging with active users in their dialogue. News in the online environment gives a huge impact to the journalist in the tradition media as in shifting from writing to editing will prove to be an ethical challenge and television, broadcast and online journalism each has their own culture of doing it. “The fact that its audience is not really an audience anymore.” Jay Rosen (2006). This happens when sometimes the audience also produces and provides content without filtering the raw information. I personally think that this is one of the biggest challenge being face by the Journalist of where is their actual role in online journalism nowadays.

Reference list 
1. Bradshaw, P & Rohumaa, L 2011, the online journalism handbook, Pearson Education Ltd, Essex, Uk. 
2. Meikle, G and Redden G (eds) 2011, News online: transformations and continuities, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK.