COPY/PASTE JOURNALISM AND THE INTERNET: A USED PRODUCT IN THE NEW MEDIA

Text topic: Journalism and the New Media

Text author: Ивана Ерцеговац и Марко Средојевић

Widely spread online journalism and emergence of the internet portals are bringing democratization of public speach. However, they are also carring some risks and dangers that are affecting the already shaken position of journalistic profession, and are arising questions of professionalism, ethics and jurnalism codes. Copy/paste journalism includes not only the recycling of previously published information, but also taking news without publishing sources, plagiarism, taking informal statements from the social networks as formal ones and so on. The reasons behind this futile job, without reference to the basic principles of journalism, are different – but the most obvious ones are of lucrative nature.