數字新聞為學術討論、分析和回應數字技術的廣泛影響，以及經濟、政治和文化發展，為新聞實踐和研究提供了一個重要的論壇。新聞業的根本性轉變正在改變新聞生產、內容和接收的方方面面;在不到十年的時間里，“新媒體”以驚人的速度轉變為“傳統媒體”。這些關鍵的變化挑戰了新聞實踐、學術和教育領域的傳統假設，使定義邊界變得不固定，甚至需要重新評估最基本的問題，如“什么是新聞?”和“誰是記者?”

Digital Journalism provides a critical forum for scholarly discussion, analysis and responses to the wide ranging implications of digital technologies, along with economic, political and cultural developments, for the practice and study of journalism. Radical shifts in journalism are changing every aspect of the production, content and reception of news; and at a dramatic pace which has transformed ‘new media’ into ‘legacy media’ in barely a decade. These crucial changes challenge traditional assumptions in journalism practice, scholarship and education, make definitional boundaries fluid and require reassessment of even the most fundamental questions such as "What is journalism?" and "Who is a journalist?"