Production and transformation of content from traditional to digital: A research in the context of digital journalism

Depending on the development of technology, changes and transformations are experienced in the field of communication. Computer and internet technologies, which are the basis of today's industry, constitute a digitalized world order called new media. This change and transformation underlying the digitization affects the mass media. The traditional production of mass media has experienced change and transformation depending on the phenomena of place, time and space within the possibilities provided by new communication technologies. These changes in mass media are also seen in the field of journalism. The virtual environment created by the internet world has transformed news production into a structure that is produced both in a traditional structure and in a digital environment. The hardware of new communication technologies has affected the elements of news production within the transformation of traditional journalism into digital journalism. At the same time, new journalism practices that emerged with digital journalism have been an important factor in the change of news content. Compared to traditional news production, an interactive, accessible and fast transformation is made in digitalized journalism. These features that digitalization provides to journalism and digital storytelling being developed in the new media environment, lead digital journalism to produce in this direction. The narrative structures used in digital journalism are composed of elements such as writing techniques, multimedia elements, and hypertextual words. The news production elements that emerge in digital journalism constitute digital journalism narration. News narration in digital journalism varies according to the political economy of media organizations. Differences in the political economy of media organizations cause distinctions in digital news production. These differences that occur in the news production process are also reflected in the professional principles of journalism and news ethics. In the study, the news production processes created by media organizations in the context of the transition from traditional journalism to digital journalism and the transformation of news content are discussed and the differences in the narrative structures used in the news are stated. Within this framework, the structures of digital news produced in Hürriyet, Milliyet, The New York Times and The Guardian newspapers are examined. A comparative descriptive content analysis has been made of today's digital news production in the context of journalism professional principles and ethics.