Social media formulates an opportunity to enter mainstream media work places and also being recognized amidst reporters for professional practices. The rise of social media over the last fifteen years for all citizens in India has seen a significant influence on the way in which news is reported. A virtual-age journalist is predicted to find innovative approaches to vend the news testimonies on multiple platforms, which calls for a topical have a look at to discover the current tendencies in Indian English newspaper industry. Correspondents in Canada rampantly garnering social media where they use it most, and all out fits of new media journalism have been implanted in their media source practices. The current paper was an effort to understand the mindset of editors and reporters toward social media usage as a reporting method. Judgemental sampling was employed to accumulate statistics from 60 editors and reporters from Delhi based media houses in India to realize the aptitudes required to thrive as a new-age journalist and the way that is impacting the sector of journalism in India. Out comes specified that social networking websites were being used to publish news reports. More than 70%media personnel agreed that they used the usage of social media to the extent of even generating information story thoughts. Apprehensions too were upturned via editors and reporters at the importance of subject paintings to cut down unreal news menace, raising dependable assets and forthcoming of inspective journalism predominantly in the phase of social media in India.

Keywords: Digital Journalism, Social Journalism, Citizen Journalism, Networked Journalism, Inspective Journalism.