Students of NUML university, Pakistan Mass Comm Semester 1.

1. NEW MEDIA
AND
ONLINE
JOURNALISM

2. “THE LAST MINUTE”
“Every minute is the last
minute.”
Sana Khan
Javeria Manzoor
Maryam Sajjad
Moneeba Mazhar

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Deadline
 Don’t Believe Your Mother
 Tweaking For The Web
 Developing stories, Up-dates and Follow-ups
 Conclusion

4. INTRODUCTION
 Every minute is the last minute because of the constant
updating of online news sites.
 It is to put finishing touches to a story.
History:
First half of 20th century.
Message boards.
Now 21st century.
Electronic media
Online Media

5. DEADLINE
 “The time by which a news report must be submitted.”
 Deadline must be meant to keep the whole process on
schedule.
 The biggest single difference between the job of the
online reporter and that of other traditional journalists is
the DEADLINE involved.

6. DEADLINE IN NEWSPAPER
 In newspaper, reporters have main or fixed deadline.
 The single-deadline day is emerged from the technology of
newspapers.
Deadline in Television
 Television reporters have generally had multiple
deadlines.
 TV channels can cover only one story at a time.
 News networks can “crawl” their updates information
across the bottom of TV screen.

7. DEADLINE IN ONLINE MEDIA
 In online journalism there is a constant or “rolling
deadline.”
 In online journalism getting a scoop is not a matter of
hours but of minutes.
 Online news sites have to meet their audiences deadline
not their own.
 In online medium, deadline will vary according to the
timeliness and importance of the story.

8. DON’T BELIEVE YOUR MOTHER
“If your mother says, she loves you check it out.”
 Journalists are also encouraged to be skeptical without
being cynical .

9. DON’T BELIEVE YOUR
MOTHER
 Specific Events:
In any story most of the substance of your article will be
based on straight forward facts about that event.
 Less Concrete Events:
Dealing with stories of less concrete nature fact checking is
more difficult and more necessary.
 Journalistic Credibility:
The best opinion writing backup its argument with facts
wherever possible and with other informed opinion.
 Process of Fact Checking:
The process of fact checking is beyond simply verifying
individual pieces of information.

10. RECHECK, RECHECK, RECHECK
 Source should gathered solid information.
 Submit story only when reporter is confirmed
about a particular story.
 Make sure all names and job titles are correct.
 Any references to people involved in legal
proceeding are accurate.

11. TWEAKING FOR THE WEB
 To change slightly usually in a reference to a value, if
program is always correct rather than figure out the precise
problem, journalist might just keep tweaking it until it
works.
Links to audio or video Clips
 Best online stories often contain links to audio or video
clips previous related stories or even to homepage of
people, organizations, and companies mention in the story.

12. TWEAKING FOR WEB
 Useful Audio and Video Clips
 New Angle
 Last Minute Change
 Useful Links

13. TWEAKING FOR WEB
 Placing Links on Web
 Unique Feature
 Outlet Standards

14. TWEAKING FOR WEB
 A complete package for the online reader.

15. DEVELOPING STORIES, UP-
DATES,
FOLLOW-UPS
Best format
 Television
 Newspaper
Perfect Outlet
 Online journalism

16. DEVELOPING STORIES
Stories in which the details revealed over a period of
days or weeks are called developing stories.
 Online medium
 Online reporter

17. UP-DATES
“Up to date, as by adding new information or making
corrections”.
 Re-write an existing story.
 Different sites have different policies on updating.

18. FOLLOW-UPS
In a news story, reporter gets new material a few hours
later or a day or two after the original event. These are
called follow up stories.
They have two main purposes.
I. To provide new information about a previous story.
II. And up to date readers who did not see previous story.

19. CONCLUSION
 Every minute is the last minute. Print, electronic or online
every medium has its own “last minute”.
 To be a successful reporter one must be able to write
stories quickly and get there facts straight. In the Online
medium rather than writing individual stories, reporters
leave a trial of stories that users can follow from the
beginning, if they like.
 More than any other medium online stories are often more
of an on-going process than a finished product.