Online journalism is the publishing of news and relevant other contents online. In other words, online journalism is the practice of creating and distributing journalistic contents online.

Thus, it can be said that this is a type of journalism that operates via the internet.

Online journalism is equivalent to its print and broadcast counterparts (newspaper, magazine, television, and radio) and follows the same professional code of conduct. Thus, online journalism is similar to traditional journalism in terms of the quality of journalistic contents and overall ethical standard.

Online journalism is often variedly described as web journalism, digital journalism and netizen journalism.