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INTERNET AS A NEWS SOURCE

INTERNET AS A NEWS SOURCE. Panu Uotila. SOURCES ARE FUNDAMENTAL FOR ALL JOURNALISM (Couldry 2010). Online world is throwing up new source actors for journalism, e.g. blogs Can expand the news landscape by new sources

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INTERNET AS A NEWS SOURCE

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  1. INTERNET AS A NEWS SOURCE Panu Uotila

  2. SOURCES ARE FUNDAMENTAL FOR ALL JOURNALISM (Couldry 2010) • Online world is throwing up new source actors for journalism, e.g. blogs • Can expand the news landscape by new sources • Can open up towards a more deliberative, and more opinion oriented approach to news

  3. INTERNET SOURCES (Mabweazara 2013) • New ways of generating story ideas • Possibilities for engaging and cultivating sources on social networking sites • New tools for checking background information and verifying facts

  4. QRITIQUE “The journalists are spending more time in the newsroom surfing the internet for story ideas rather than going into the field to observe directly the events and processes on which they report.” (Mabweazara 2013)

  5. QRITIQUE (Mabweazara 2013) “Enabling journalists to get to data without having to leave the newsroom, the internet is taking away the human face of journalism –news stories are now devoid of the colour that normally emerges from direct interactions with sources.” (News editor at the Zimbabwe Independent)

  6. OPEN DATA • The problem concerning utilizing open data is that the journalists don´t know what to ask and the officials don´t know what to give. (Kuutti 2009) • Need for analyzing tools, time and competency for analyzing

  7. CHALLENGES OF VERIFYING ONLINE CONTENT • Need for normal journalistic source critique • Is it possible that the source knows the fact that he is claiming? • What is the position of the source concerning the matter? • Double checking, cross checking • Risk: Less face to face –contacts, less time for fact checking

  8. QUESTIONS • How you can identify a fake site or identity? • Can you trust official sources? • Can you trust NGO sources? • If you are quoting and mention the internet source, are you responsible of the facts? • If someone is correcting online that your story´s facts are wrong, what should you do? • How you separate facts and opinions?

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