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In this study, we sought to provide an accurate and detailed diagnosis of the transformations witnessed by Palestinian media institutions in light of the new environment of communication, and to know how Palestinian media institutions can establish a new communication model within their organizational structures in line with the new environment of communication in the digital age. It also discussed the mechanisms used by professional journalists in traditional Palestinian media institutions to deal with the contents produced by citizen journalists. In this context, we posed the following problem: What are the contexts of transformation and integration of traditional Palestinian media in the context of communication digitization, and how did citizenship journalism practices employed in newsrooms? In order to answer this problem, we followed the qualitative content analysis approach. The tool of the qualitative approach was the (codified) scientific interviews with editors-in-chief in the local Palestinian media. It sought to activate the participation of citizen journalists in furnishing news spaces, and created platforms for it to communicate with its audience" Crowd Sourcing", and to form supporters for its "crowd journalism" to take advantage of the feature of communicative interaction through social media, and this indicates that smart TV newsrooms are looking forward because Convergence News room [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed at identifying the role of layman journalism as a source of information from the Jordanian journalists perspective, and to find out the main reasons for the emergence of the layman journalism, and the professional, ethical standerds. The study used the survey method with a sample of (200) Jordanian journalists who are working in daily Jordanian newspapers (ALRai, Addoustur, Al-Ghad, Al-Anbat, Adyar, Al-Sabeel) and Jordanian News Agency (Petra), who also members in the Jordan Press Association (JPA). A questionnaire was used as a tool of study. The study came up with some results such as: The "political transformations in the Arab region," came on the top of reasons for the emergence of the layman journalism from the Jordanian journalists perspective (20.7%), followed by "efforts in solving the problems of the society", (19.4%). The study shows that vast majority (86%) agreed that the layman journalism have an impact on the nature of professional journalism, and (60%) of the study sample suggested that the media should adopt a layman journalism (sometimes), while those who believe that it should be adopted (always) are (18%). (80%) of the surveyed respondents believe that the media must review and edit the material sent by the layman journalist before publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]