Journalism Squeezed Between “Click” and Ethics: An Investigation of the New Ethical Problems Raised by Internet Journalism and Journalists’ Views On

The aim of this study was to investigate the rapid changes in journalistic practice occurring along with digitalization and the new ethical problems emerging as a result of this new shape of the profession. In order to assess the scope and intensity of the effect of digitalization, the views were sought of the internet editors themselves, who have the primary direct experience of the practice of digitalization. Therefore, the internet editors of Hürriyet, Milliyet and Sabah newspapers were interviewed in ？stanbul between 15 and 20 January 2018. Patton’s interview form technique was used as a data gathering instrument, and content analysis was applied to the data gathered. According to the results of the study, journalists thought that digitalization had both positive and negative effects on the news production process in journalism. They also thought that new, ethical problems in the transmission of news, previously unencountered in the traditional press, had arisen both for journalism and for readers. Foremost among these were the editor taking the role of a desk-based reporter in the new journalism, the spread of click-focused journalistic practice, news sources and changes in the conditions of accessing news, the rapid spread of mistakes and fake news, the click trap, and virtual galleries