Prior to the year 1600, there have been no newspapers within the new British colonies. The recent introductions and improvements along with growth of the expertise of reporting, for example, shorthand, telegraphy, photography, microphones, satellites, cell telephones, lap-tops, twittering, Internet, emailing Youtube, video-casting and so on, these have elevated moderately than simplify the theoretical issues of objectivity in the information.

While Twitter can be utilized to crowdsource the information, the place a big group of users come collectively to report on a information event (Niles, 2007), this paper argues that the institutionally structured options of micro-running a blog are creating new forms of journalism, representing one of the ways wherein the Internet is influencing journalism practices and, moreover, altering how journalism itself is outlined.

It is definite that new gadgets like phablets and tablets are popping out in 2013, and new concepts in hardware and software are abound like by no means earlier than: innovations and breakthroughs for firms which were around and new ones, all engaged on many aged and new gadgets, should help catapult the world of know-how to yet another level.

Deuze (2004), p. 140) argues that the idea of multimedia in online journalism studies is usually understood in both of two ways: (1) as a presentation of a information story package where two or more media codecs are utilized (e.g. text, audio, video, graphics etc.), or (2) as a distribution of a news story packaged by way of totally different media (e.g. newspaper, web site, radio, tv and so on.).

The African Elections Project () was established with the vision of enhancing the ability of journalists, citizen journalists and the news media to provide more timely and relevant election info and knowledge, while undertaking monitoring of specific and essential elements of elections using social media tools and ICT applications.