Prospects and challenges of online journalism

INTRODUCTION 

Online Journalism refers to the practice of journalism using the Internet as a medium of reaching the target audience. It is the gathering, organizing, and disseminating of news stories in text, pictures, audio and video to the audience which also give room for interaction and immediate feedback using the internet. The online journalism make use of different platforms which include Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.  

The advent of online journalism comes with prospects and challenges. For the purpose of this work, we will try to look into the prospects and challenges of online journalism with the view of shedding light on the subject.