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Abstract

Around the globe the connectivity between journalists and their news sources has beentransformed due to the expanding digital technology, inclusion of public relationspractitioners in sourcing and rise in the roles performed by citizen in journalism. Suchinfluence of digital and social media forms has greatly influenced the professional rolesperformed by the journalists. On the other hand, it is controlling the system in such away that the spread of voices of authoritative and others is becoming a challenging taskto handle. This competition among the sources has blurred the boundaries betweenaudience, producer, and consumer by minimizing the distinction between opinionsbased and factual reporting and making working practices difficult for journalists. Assuch, changes the roles performed by journalists are greatly affected by making theirdecision-making ability a challenging task to handle. They have created a more complexrelationship between the journalists and their sources and framing of the issues by themedia. The current study aims to review how various research studies have examinedthe inter relationship that exists between the journalists and their sources in the era ofnew media and social networking and how such relation has played role in framing theissues by the journalists.