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No longer are journalists and the news constrained by the technical limitations of analog media boundaries of print, television, or radio. Instead all modalities of human communication are available for telling the story in the most compelling interactive, on- demand, and customized fashion possible.
Of course, newsroom traditions and training, as well as newsroom economics, may ultimately determine whether journalists fully utilize these online capabilities to create better, more complete and conceptualized news reports. Nevertheless, the technology makes improved journalism possible. |
For example “Apbonline” is a news website covering crime throughout the United States and internationally. It is an internet-original, or purely online, news product; it has no print or broadcast parent. Not just confined to text reporting, the site utilized interactivity, images. It also illustrates the unique capabilities of online news.
A 1998 study by Jupiter Communications places these findings in the context of online journalism, revealing that the 80 percent of adult Americans who use online media (2,200 were surveyed) rate online news sources as just as credible (i.e. they trust them to the same degree) as traditional news providers, with the remaining 20 percent relatively evenly split (12.7 percent say they trust offline sources more, 7.3 percent say they trust online sources more.
The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location.
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