Abstract
<p><em><span>This study examines the barriers to online journalism in the 5.0 industry era in facing market competition. This research was conducted on suaramerdeka.com as a large newspaper company in Central Java that can still survive in the midst of global competition in the mass media competition. Critical perspective with Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis design used in this study. The novelty of this research is specifically to answer the challenges of online journalism in the era of the industrial revolution 5.0 in terms of human resources. The findings of this study are related to the routine of news production in the suaramerdeka.com media, the speed of news updates, the accuracy and balance of the news. The human resources of news seekers and editing teams are not yet fully prepared to face the challenges of the new era. The results of this study shows that 1) the news production dependent on HR factor, company factor and managing editor; 2) the news delivery planning dependent on the market need, the news content of the printed Suara Merdeka aims at fulfilling the needs of the people of Central Java, suaramerdeka.com seeks to meet the needs of the people of Central Java around the world.</span></em></p>
Highlights
Suara Merdeka is one of the major media in Central Java, up to now it still survives in the midst of sophistication in communication technology
Spardley summarized the ‘Gradual Advance Research Flow’ which consists of five principles, namely: (1) the researchers are encouraged to use only one technique of collecting data; (2) identifying the main steps in the technique, for example the 12 main steps in an ethnographic interview from Spardley; (3) each main steps is executed sequentially; (4) practice and exercise must always be done; (5) providing problem solving as social responsibility, not just science for science anymore (Spardley, 1997). This session presents the research findings related to the news production routines at suaramerdeka.com, the speed of news update that precisely override the accuracy and the balance of the news, as well as the human resources of the news seekers which have not been fully prepared for the industrial revolution 5.0
The term Gatekeeping is used as a metaphor to describe the selection process in the media work to broadcast news through the media 'door’ to the digital platform of suaramerdeka.com
Summary
Suara Merdeka is one of the major media in Central Java, up to now it still survives in the midst of sophistication in communication technology. Suaramerdeka.com is here to become today's media, in other words, this is news that can be accessed on digital platforms. Suaramerdeka.com is a business division of Suara Merdeka Network which is engaged in online news. Founded on September 14, 1996 by Tommy Hetami, the online media is located at www.suaramerdeka.com. This website only contained printed editions of news taken from the print media of Suara Merdeka Daily. On 11 February 2000, Suara Merdeka added the news with the News Actual edition and other channels. This News Actual is intended so that suaramerdeka.com always provides the latest information (Novitasari, 2012)
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