User:Plarcher/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Digital journalism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose to evaluate this article because I feel is in line with the learnings of this digital literacy class, and is focused around an important and ever evolving topic. As the traditional news media industry continues to decline as the digital media environment grows, digital news is becoming more dependent on digital journalist. Since there are more avenues to release information to the public, I wanted to learn more about the digital journalism field and what digital journalists are doing to remain credible, ethical, and professional in a less restricted newsgathering environment.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

This article seems to be very educational and unbiased upon my intimal reading. Since digital journalism is still a relatively young subject and ever evolving, there was mention of that there is no clear cut definition of what digital journalism exactly can be defined as. I found this to be fair and help legitimize the work of the article. That being said, the lead does describe to its best ability what digital journalism is generally defined as and how it will be defined for the sake of the article.

The article does define what elements make up digital journalism and how how digital journalists disseminate their stories. Since this is an ever changing subject, I found that a lot of the referenced articles to be slightly out of date, especially in regards to today's current social and digital media landscape. Additionally, there are no images or examples to help explain what digital journalism consist of.

The article is clear, concise and easy to read. All the sources seem credible. When analyzing the talk page for the article I was surprised by the lack of interaction. With how society is so rapidly changing in how it gathers its news, citizen journalism, and how the traditional news model is on the decline, I thought there would be more interaction and edits.

Overall I think the article has a solid base for defining what Digital journalism is and how it started, but it can be updated and provide information on what digital journalism looks like today and has evolved.