India, July 21 -- Media education is being forced to answer a practical question: what should a student learn when news no longer stays in one format? The way people receive information and the way news is presented to them have completely changed since the advent of the digital age. Readers now usually learn about news through either their phone notifications, short videos (such as clips of news stories), social media threads (like Twitter/Instagram), podcast clips, or live updates, long before they ever see any print edition or television news bulletin.

In response to this change, news organizations have evolved. Many news initiatives operate digital departments in addition to their traditional newsrooms. Reported stories begin with th...