Digital journalism has changed so much over the past few years. There is so much more interaction between a writer and the public now. So many papers have online sites as well as the printed paper. The news can be put on the Web sites so much faster. With print news you cannot get the same stories as fast. The other benefit to online stories is the insight that people can give. People can comment on the news stories, and interact with the writers. The writers can tell the people that comment why they feel the way they do. This interaction can help keep the writers sharp, and also can give them different points of view. This can help them in their later stories.
While the interaction between the writer and consumer is new, the practice of recovering the news is still the same. As a writer you want to make sure that the information is correct. As it states in the lecture notes, "The central purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society." Even though speed is now a factor in publishing news stories, they still need to be accurate.
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