Digital journalists have great chance to develop much-needed transparency

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/05/digital-journalists-have-great-chance-to-develop-much-needed-transparency

Digital media outlets can improve the quality of journalism by using new tools such as the CSI-style verification of social media posts and by allowing the reader not only to comment but to correct articles, media researcher Kellie Riordan argues.

These methods are being used by both traditional media outlets such as the BBC and digital natives such as the US business site Quartz, which launched only in 2012 but is already competing with the Economist and Bloomberg.

Far from the internet destroying quality journalism, digital has given the media lots of new tools to improve it, Riordan says in her study, Accuracy, independence, and impartiality: How legacy media and digital natives approach standards in the digital age.

This article focuses on how the news articles online are now allowing for users to edit them. This questions the role of a journalist as multiple people are allowed to edit articles. I think that this could make bigger companies like BBC to improve the quality of their articles as they would not want ugc to be better than their content.