Journalism@MaKS

A blogger who posts once or twice a day might be considered prolific. Manuel Delia often posts hard-hitting commentary four or five times a day. He obviously has a lot to say, and Malta needs citizen journalists like him now more than ever following the outrageous assassination of crusading blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia last month. A former full-time political operative – he served as press secretary to Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami and in total spent a decade in PN administrations – Delia has been on the sidelines since unsuccessfully contesting the general elections in 2013. That certainly hasn’t stopped him from speaking out on the issues roiling Malta. He does so, according to his Truth be told blog, by combining his inside knowledge with “some theoretical background and considerable experience in the field” to provide insights that help readers to “scratch a little bit deeper beneath the surface." Manuel Delia Delia does more than simply comment on events.

No sooner had Bertrand Borg from the timesofmalta.com spoken to the class about online journalism on Wednesday and held out the opportunity to contribute to the Times website but it seemed the digital media world began to fall apart. A chain of events began in the U.S., where the Trump administration swept aside a longstanding ban on newspaper publishers holding a licence for a television station in the same market. That led to much speculation about which old media company would acquire which, focusing attention on the fact that newspapers and television stations are worth buying because they still make money, just not as much as before the Internet came along Then on Friday reports emerged that Buzzfeed , one of the most polarizing U.S. online news outlets for its successful formula of stealing content, would announce earnings 15-20 percent lower than expected because online ad revenues had stalled. Then it was reported that magazine publisher Ziff Davis was buying Mashable for