BOSTON MARATONU PATLAMALARI SONRASINDA YENİ MEDYA, GAZETECİLİK VE KREDİBİLİTE MESELELERİ

New Media is now an essential part of citizens' everyday and professional lives in Turkey. This paper focuses theoretically on the journalistic credibility in the age of new media. The focus is not on a total questioning of journalistic authority but a critical thinking of credibility issues related to the new media influenced news writing. The most obvious case that triggered credibility issues recently is the Boston Marathon Bombings (April 2013). In the aftermath of bombings, news making influenced by social media was heavily criticised. My paper takes this case to substantiate the ongoing theoretical discussion on journalistic credibility issues.