AN OVERVIEW OF THE MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM

Abstract

Convergence, cross-ownership of media and multimedia newsrooms are rapidly becoming part of modern journalism's language in practice, education, as well as science. It is increasingly evolving to explore multimedia, but it is clear that to different people it means very different things. For journalism and editors, study into what digital entails in news work is proliferating. The social and cultural meaning of multimedia in journalism, its importance for existing newsrooms and media organizations, and its present (emerging) activities in Europe and the United States are discussed in this paper. The objective: to address the question in what way "multimedia" affects journalists' practice and self-perception, and how this process in turn forms and impacts the development of a multimedia journalism professional identity. This paper presents an overview of technical and scholarly literature, using the idea of media logic as a theoretical context in Europe and the United States.