Journalistic Practices in New Information Arena

Like other walks of life, digital media has revolutionized journalism altogether. The internet has made social media a crucial part of contemporary journalistic practices. Different media firms are becoming highly dependent on the content created on different social media platforms. Today media space is accessible to everyone, and one can create and publish their own content, which is available on online platforms such as blogs or social media. As a result of this opportunity, a huge amount of content is published and available on the web, which certainly lacks value and quality. This study explores journalistic practices in the new information arena. This study focuses on research objectives; to locate the scope of digital journalism in the contemporary media industry, to compare the difference created by the new information arena and traditional journalism and to assess the challenges created by the new information and technological revolution towards journalism. Purposive sampling was used to draw a sample from the population, and in-depth interviews were conducted to structure the results of the study. The findings of the study reveal that though a huge difference has been made by contemporary digital journalistic practices, there is a need to reconsider certain things to get full out of this huge opportunity.