It is very easy today for everyone to claim himself a journalist. You just have to creat a blog and post something every day on it about actuality, that doesn't make you a journalist. So what does?
A good journalist online should be a journalist as professional, that means, as ethic and serious in his job as a journalist in a standard newspaper redaction. It should, specially on the web, check his sources. You can find all kind of information on the web, but a good journalist should always call the people who wrote those informations and never quote a anonymous article. He should also use the user generated content on the internet but with the attention that we have just discussed. There is a lot of videos and images produced by internet users that are valid for professional publications, it is just more difficult to know if those images and videos are true and how they had been taken. A journalist should not use a video that he will not have shot himself.
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