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Evolution of Journalism in

21st Century: Changing Tastes, Changing Practices

On contrary to popular belief, traditional journalism takes its position very seriously. However, the advance of the new technology changes Journalism landscape into different stages, opening new channels for online correspondence and publishing's , like ‘citizen journalism‘ .

Almost anyone is applicable on using the worldwide web to be a media outlet. So,in terms of citizen journalism questions arises how will one would differentiate between myth, truth or lie .

Thus, it’s hard to predict the amateur eyewitness efforts through their digital gadgets by filming or writing incidents and posting on digital media platforms .

” To footage of Syrian atrocities on YouTube, from live blogs on ‘Occupy’ protests now has access to a wealth of raw material , but can it all be trusted? ” writes Guardian. Citizen Journalism has always brought up the issue of accuracy.

The Essential aim of traditional journalism is to be objective and distribute an unbiased, factual news coverage. It’s a strict code traditional journalism applied to all it’s journalist to sustain and preserve confidence, public’s trust and reliability.

Also, to guarantee this, traditional journalism maintains ‘gate keeping‘ within mainstream media. Therefore, the traditional journalism relies on all qualified journalists to channel only genuine news coverage before broadcasting or publications.

Citizen journalists are untrained in such journalistic standards and hence in danger of untrustworthy sources and distributing fake news. Report shows almost half (49.1%) of internet-users are tricked by false ‘breaking news’.

Therefore, citizen journalism should be approached with accentuation of vigilance and skepticism .