New media journalism

"New media is a broad term in Media Studies that emerged in the later part of the 20th century to encompass the amalgamation of traditional media such as film, images, music, spoken and written word, with the interactive power of computer and communications technology, computer-enabled consumer devices and most importantly the Internet"
New media journalism means "new school" journalism that done by using new media tools. These tools can be blogs, wiki-sites (like wikileaks.org), twitter and etc. New media journalists can be anyone, they don't need to work with an official media channel. This type of journalism born with web 2.0 era. Web 2.0 changed the aspect for people on the net from "reader" to "user". People started to publish their own web sites and/or share their media on the websites like youtube, soundcloud, flickr, picasa, vimeo..
Another definition for new media journalism in is this:
:"With the decline of print newspapers, there has been a wave of new media journalism. New media journalism is also known as convergence journalism. Convergence journalism focuses on using social networking as a means of communication as opposed to traditional print journalism. Many newspapers have begun publishing online to cut production costs; simultaneously, more people find news online instead of buying print newspapers. Recently, convergence journalism has been dominated by websites like Facebook and Twitter. With the evolution of new technologies, some experts predict print journalism will ultimately disappear, to be replaced by new media.
:Besides, this new media age features the growth of multimedia, as some newspapers have begun publishing online, some journalists or journalism organizations also add their reporting through the internet on top of their traditional media outlets; and a lot of independent journalism production houses appear as well, which may feature both main stream news or unknown stories that are not covered in the news. Common Language Project is an example of a multimedia production house that features under-reported stories."
With this "easily shareble media" and "user generated content" created the "new media" and "new media journalism". One of the most important case in new media journalism was London Metro Bombing at 7 July 2005. That day, reporters couldn't get into the place of the incident because of security issues. Instead of professional reporters, witnesses used their mobile phone cameras, filmed the situation then shared their media by using their mobile internet connection with TV channels like CNN and BBC. After that, these TV channels used these witness-sourced media to show their watchers. That was one of the first most important cases for the new media journalism. That showed the world everyone with an image recording device and an internet connection can be a reporter in anywhere on the world. These people are the first, important, "new media reporters".
Other thing for new media journalism; some of the reporters chose to publish from their own blogs or websites instead being the part of conglomerated and/or media channels taking same side with government for their benefits. For example Fatih AltaylÄ± in Turkey was one of these new media journalists. He is also using twitter for staying connected with his readers. (or for the new media: followers)
Wikileaks
:" 'WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Its website, launched in 2006 and run by The Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. The organisation describes its founders as a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director. WikiLeaks was originally launched as a user-editable wiki site, but has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits."
WikiLeaks is the most important important for new media journalism. They are sourced both with their own agents and site users. Julian Assange is also telling how do they having their sources on this linked video .
New media journalim also has some handicaps like wikileaks faced. Websites are being hosted by another companies, finances usually based on donations and etc. That gives advantages to your rivals or forces that you make news about them. It's explained well in Wikileaks' page as "US diplomatic cable responses". It's quoted below:
:"According to The Times, WikiLeaks and its members have complained about continuing harassment and surveillance by law enforcement and intelligence organisations, including extended detention, seizure of computers, veiled threats, “covert following and hidden photography.” Two lawyers for Julian Assange in the United Kingdom told The Guardian that they believed they were being watched by the security services after the US cables leak, which started on 28 November 2010.
:Furthermore, several companies severed ties with WikiLeaks. After providing 24-hour notification, American owned EveryDNS dropped WikiLeaks from its entries on 2 December 2010, citing DDoS attacks that "threatened the stability of its infrastructure". The site's 'info' DNS lookup remained operational at alternative addresses for direct access respectively to the WikiLeaks and Cablegate websites. On the same day, Amazon.com severed its ties with WikiLeaks, to which it was providing infrastructure services, after an intervention by an aide of U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. Amazon denied acting under political pressure citing a violation of its terms of service. Citing indirect pressure from the U.S. Government, Tableau Software also dropped WikiLeaks' data from its site for people to use for data visualisation.
:In the days following, hundreds of (and eventually more than a thousand) mirrors of the WikiLeaks site appeared and the Anonymous group of internet activists, called on supporters to attack the websites of companies which do not support WikiLeaks, under the banner of Operation Payback, previously aimed at anti-piracy organisations. AFP reported that attempts to shut down the wikileaks.org address had lead to the site surviving via the so-called Streisand effect, whereby attempts to censor information online leads to it being replicated in many places.
:On 3 December, PayPal, the payment processor owned by eBay, permanently cut off the account of the Wau Holland Foundation that had been redirecting donations to WikiLeaks. PayPal alleged that the account violated its "Acceptable Use Policy", specifically that it was used for "activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity." The Vice President of PayPal later stated that they stopped accepting payments after the “State Department told us these were illegal activities. It was straightforward.” Later the same day, he said that his previous statement was incorrect, and that it was in fact based on a letter from the State Department to WikiLeaks. On 8 December 2010, the Wau Holland Foundation released a press statement, saying it has filed a legal action against PayPal for blocking its account used for WikiLeaks payments and for libel due to PayPal's allegations of "illegal activity".
:On 6 December, the Swiss bank, PostFinance, announced that it had frozen the assets of Assange that it holds, totalling 31,000 euros. In a statement on their website, they stated that this was because Assange "provided false information regarding his place of residence" when opening the account. WikiLeaks released a statement saying this was due to that Assange, "as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyer's address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence". On the same day, MasterCard announced that it "is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products", adding "MasterCard rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal." The next day, Visa Inc. announced it was suspending payments to WikiLeaks, pending "further investigations". In a move of support for WikiLeaks, XIPWIRE established a way to donate to WikiLeaks, and waived their fees. Datacell, the Swiss-based IT company that enabled WikiLeaks to accept credit card donations, announced that it will take legal action against Visa Europe and Mastercard, in order to resume allowing payments to the website. On December 18, Bank of America announced it would "not process transactions of any type that we have reason to believe are intended for Wikileaks" citing "Wikileaks may be engaged in activities that are... inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments". WikiLeaks responded in a tweet by encouraging their supporters who were BoA customer to close their accounts. Bank of America has long been believed to be the target of WikiLeaks's next major release.
:On 7 December, The Guardian stated that people can still donate to WikiLeaks via Commerzbank Kassel in Germany or Landsbanki in Iceland or by post to a post office box at the University of Melbourne or at the wikileaks.ch domain.
:The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has stated that Visa, Mastercard and Amazon may be 'violating WikiLeaks' e pluribus unum right to freedom of expression' by withdrawing their services.
:On 21 December, media reported that Apple had removed an application from its App Store, which provided access to the embassy cable leaks.
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