Online Journalism
Online journalism has grown in South Africa, with the context of increase use of social media in the field. Increasingly, local activists are using mobile and online social networking to share news around their communities. One of the most growing online journalism that exists these days is citizen journalism. Though we have our News24, Timeslive.com, Sabc.com and the list goes on. There is a number of people who are doing journalism online. These people do not have professional journalism training, but you find them reporting online. They are using the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of internet to get their voices heard.
What is really fascinating about online journalism is the fact that these online media houses give people a platform to be heard and come up with solutions. They say what they want from stories they view and even criticize where it is necessary.
The website is a gateway to South African suited to tourists and South Africans living abroad. The SABC’s news websites has a breaking news headline, links to other SABC’s websites and video and audio from news bulletins. The SABC’s main feature is South Africa, World, Politics, Economics, Environment, Technology, and their news programmers are Fokus, Kids News and Special Assignment. The Independent online and media, the website has the daily pick of material from 14 regional and national newspapers while the News24 also seems to serve the same. The Timeslive on the other side offers multiple options on their news feed, which includes news on politics, sport, business, entertainment, life & style, Sci-tech, opinions, blogs and multi media.
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