Digital journalism

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Digital Journalism is a term used to describe a trend in journalism originating from the internet.

Technological affordances, which previously allowed the mass distribution of news and information to large, increasingly homogeneous audiences, are now giving that same power to individuals. This trend is called digital journalism, with low barriers to entry provided by the Internet and computer networking technologies, as well as new writing genres, such as blogs, creating a new media landscape for twenty-first century digital journalists. Freed from large investments in distribution and production equipment (known as the long-tail in marketing terms), individuals and grass roots organization are pioneering a host of new journalistic styles and practices, such as digital journalism, and also generating new communicative forms, such as YouTube and hyper-local geographically based Web sites, as well as refreshing older forms, such as obituaries.