Why is Online Journalism imporant?

Online journalism is indeed one of the latest medium used for information dissemination today.

Obvious as it may seem, online journalism is a form of journalism practiced and utilized online. Blog entries, Facebook status updates, Tweets on Twitter, video chat via Skype and photos on Tumblr are just few of the ways netizens (people online) contribute to the rapid spread of online journalism. Applications are being made and laptop and PC features are being improved every time.

Traditionally, print and broadcast journalism are the more popular kinds of reporting news and events that are happening in the society. Even until now, but the number of people reading news online is fast increasing because in just a click of one's personal computer's mouse, news about the world can be known instantly.

Over the years, it has been proved that the online media has a great impact on the views of the people: online readers and consumers, especially those with Twitter accounts. Twitter today is widely used by different kinds of individuals like actors and actresses, politicians, newscasters and the like because it is where they publish posts about their personal lives, opinions and rants.

Until Twitter found its new calling. Records revealed that seven minutes after the devastating earthquake in Haiti last January 2010, Frederic Dupoux, published his first tweet about the scenario. Dupoux was a Haiti- based internet user. As the power supply in Haiti shut down and TV and radio stations were out of service, the only way the people and Haiti reported what happened was through their mobile phones with internet connection.

The tweet went viral and other tweets about the quake were published. There were two foreign correspondents during that time but they needed to attend their personal lives because they have their families in Haiti. The first correspondent that arrived in Haiti was CNN- journalist Anderson Cooper. Soon enough after broadcasting what happened in the place, military operations took place and other media outfits like NewYork Times and Los Angeles Times worked together with CNN to report the quake's aftermath and soon was broadcasted around the world.

These information was from Nicola Bruno's research titled, "Tweet first, Verify Later? How real- time information is changing the coverage of worldwide crisis events.

Twitter has paved its way of providing relevant information and news to its users around the globe. It is also because media organizations worldwide created their Twitter accounts, facebook accounts and even their own websites for a more on-the-go information for their readers.

Many other technological advancements are being used today to broadcast news events around the world. As these information become viral, so are the use of internet-based applications become popular.

There are many other ways to share information, it's just that online journalism is a faster way to inform the people in the world about other countries' stability.Technology is fleeting but technology is proving that it is useful in the everyday lives of people of different races and culture.