Credibility of the New and Traditional Media

Running head: RESEARCH METHODS
Research Methods
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Explanation of the research topic...............................................................................................2
Methodology description...........................................................................................................3
Importance of the research questions.........................................................................................5
Methodology review..................................................................................................................7
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Explanation of the research topic
In the current decade there has been an overdependence upon media and its resources
for the collection and gathering of information. The current assignment discusses the
credibility of news media over the current media, which is based upon social media
technologies. A current revolution has been brought about in the manner of reporting news
owing to the emergence of social media. Journalism and news media are based upon
credibility (Takahashi et al. 2016). The mainstream journalists in the traditional news media
have a negative attitude towards internet mode of news delivery. The resentful attitude has
been used by the traditional media and journalists for bringing about changes within the
traditional print media. Some of these are provided in the form of changed marketing plans
where free monthly subscriptions to magazines are provided along with newspapers. The
assignment discusses the credibility of the new and traditional media for the people as well as
the journalists. With the emergence of social media people are just a click away from getting
the daily doses of the national and international news. The digital media has made the
availability of new easier over some of the platforms such as Google newsstand, yahoo new,
social media platforms. On the other hand, the dependence upon traditional new media is
getting reduced day by day. It is only a handful of people who are purchasing news articles in
the print form as it is seen as an additional liability where one has to visit the local newsstand
to collect the hard copy of the newspaper (Swasy et al. 2015). There has been rising a
concern within the newspaper industry regarding the number of people who turns to the radio
stations for news along with the ones relying upon television media for gathering and
collection of sufficient information (Jahng and Littau 2016). The ability of the internet
technologies to provide news in much real time has made it more credible compared to other