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With the help of online news, people can get updates of every minute and they can get information about any part of the world.
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Online news sites have a huge advantage over the printed news media. They can post articles and coverage of breaking news within minutes of it happening. • With the advents of Twitter, Instagram and other leading social media platforms, news providers are able to be in the centre of the action, as it happens, reporting events live. This has significantly changed the type of news we regularly read, and it has changed how and when we read it.
While many of us will still enjoy a leisurely morning read of the newspaper, these luxuries tend to be consigned to the realms of lazy Sunday mornings. • They are no longer something we all do on a daily basis. We are much more likely to scroll through the news feed on our favorite news provider's website. • While we are on the train, during a quick coffee at work, waiting for the kettle to boil.
Statistics indicate that increasingly, whenever people have a few minutes, they are likely to tap in to their favorite news source to get the latest updates on any given subject. • Today, the system is very similar. The difference is that this entire process often needs to take seconds, or minutes, not hours or days! • The public are demanding their news as soon as it happens, and the news makers have to respond, almost instantly.
Today, speed is the foundation of quality journalism. • Competing news providers are trying to better each other by being the first with breaking news, whatever the subject. • And technology plays a huge part in making and disseminating news extremely quickly.
One huge growth area where technology has enabled amazing coverage of breaking Dominican Republic news is the ability to provide live coverage. • A journalist can send updates, articles and live video footage, straight from their mobile device. It has the potential for making anyone a news reporter.
THANKS • A journalist can send updates, articles and live video footage, straight from their mobile device. • It has the potential for making anyone a news reporter.