ABSTRACT
The disruption has been in the making long before the sirens. It shouldn’t have been hard to foresee what was about to happen to a practice that has always depended on the media technologies of its time. Nevertheless, it arrived with a bang that no one anticipated. Journalism became a practice to be reconsidered. Meanwhile in Turkey, along with global concerns on the future of their practice, journalists face a political barrier, where the political establishment maintains full control of the mainstream news media. Change comes in many forms and sizes, and it shines with a global and significant impact on the practice of journalism from multiple angles. The ambiguous door of the 21st century opened to new questions relating to the identity, authority, purpose, and practice of journalists. Citizen involvement in journalistic affairs blurred the professional borders between the journalist and the audience.
