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Nearly 90% of the most-read online news outlets now have an established presence on TikTok compared with 57% in 2021, as digital ad revenue continues to make up an increasing portion of total digital revenues for these outlets.
What is Digital Journalism?
Digital journalists use electronic devices such as mobile phones, video cameras, computers and internet access to collect and publish news. Furthermore, this type of journalism also involves employing software programs to generate data visualizations, graphics or other visual elements to supplement written articles.
Digital journalism has revolutionized how journalists do their jobs, and its implementation may evolve over time as new technologies and platforms emerge. No matter the changes, however, digital journalism still requires strong writing abilities as well as the ability to distinguish facts from fiction.
Digital journalists need to understand how to operate video and audio recording equipment as well as photography basics, as well as being adept with working digital publishing platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Furthermore, they should possess excellent knowledge of basic computer programs like Microsoft Word and Excel.
Threaded Discussions
Threaded discussions are one form of computer-mediated communication (CMC), an online form of dialogue which happens via tools like message boards, email, and chat. CMC forms an essential part of many online education courses as it allows students to discuss related content topics with classmates in an area separate from classroom discussions.
Student responses to our threaded discussion data indicate that even quieter students participate actively and make substantial comments and replies in these discussion forums, although threaded conversations may initially seem complex or even disorienting for those unfamiliar with them, leading to miscommunication or confusion.
Threaded discussions rely on text-based interactions, which may inhibit expression of nuanced emotions and nonverbal cues that would facilitate cultural understanding and collaboration among participants from diverse cultures. Furthermore, due to the time required to read and respond to classmates’ posts in threaded discussions, student participation may be severely limited.
Social Media
As digital advertising increases as a share of total revenue, its presence on news websites has grown rapidly. According to eMarketer’s estimates, Meta and Google are the two primary ad platforms in this space and account for half of mobile digital ad revenues combined.
TikTok has become increasingly popular as an outlet for digital news organizations to reach their audiences; almost 90% of the top 105 digital news sites with high traffic now maintain accounts on this platform, which now accounts for 5% of global digital video app market.
outlets offer their audiences other methods of engagement online, including apps, newsletters and aggregation platforms. According to a Pew Research Center audit, three-quarters of the highest traffic news outlets had apps for iOS or Android and nearly seven in ten had Apple News or Flipboard apps.
Artificial Intelligence
AI refers to the ability of digital computers or robots controlled by computers to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence. AI’s goal is to allow machines to complete intellectual processes that would be challenging for humans without modern technology such as reasoning, discovering meaning, generalizing and learning from experience.
AI technologies include chess programs that rival human levels of play and protein-folding prediction algorithms that replicate the work of leading scientists, but it remains uncertain if any existing or forthcoming technology can match human flexibility and cognitive capability in terms of intelligence and flexibility.
Newsrooms are competing to implement generative AI in order to save money and streamline operations, but its adoption may only offer short-term gains for freelancers or lead to one-time payments for copyright holders. Therefore, newsrooms require clear standards governing their AI use as well as safeguards to mitigate its algorithm’s potential pitfalls.
