ABSTRACT
Professional news organizations have undoubtedly faced major challenges in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With the rise of the world wide web as an interactive platform for information trade, the business of information exchange has been catapulted into a global sphere that enables connections spanning the globe in a manner unthinkable just a few decades ago. What seems most striking in this respect are the changes in the pace at which information travels and the scale of information available. These changes in pace and scale have, in effect, accelerated so much that the practice of journalistic newsgathering, production and exchange are inevitably impacted.
