Journalism On The Internet

Journalism on the Internet

The common forms of media in today's world each have both advantages and

disadvantages. The Internet has been around for an almost equal amount of time

as most of them, but only recently has it become a popular way of retrieving

information. The Internet takes the best of all other medium and combines them

into a very unique form. The Internet is the best way to retrieve information.

This combination of paper publishing, TV, radio, telephones, and mail is the

future of communications. The internet has several types of journalism which can

be defined into three sections. One section is online magazines, online

broadcasting, and other online services. The next group is resource files and

web pages. The third is discussion groups/forums and e-mail. I will investigate

these areas of the net, showing the advantages and disadvantages of each in

comparison to the conventional forms.

In order to understand what all these topics are you must first understand

what the internet is. The simple answer is that it is computers all over the

globe connected together by telephone wires. It was first made by the military,

"No one owns the Internet", to have a network with no centre. That way it could

never be destroyed by nuclear war. Since then, universities have used it and it

has evolved into what it is today. It is a library that contains mail, stories,

news advertising, and just about everything else. "In a sense, freenets are a

literacy movement for computer mediated communication today, as public libraries

were to reading for an earlier generation." Now that the term "the net" is

understood lets look at some sections of the net.

An online magazine is a computer that lets users access it through the net.

This computer stores one or more magazines which users can read. "PC magazine

and other magazines are available on the Web" "Maclean's Magazine and Canadian

Business online; and Reuters' Canadian Newsclips." This form is much better that

conventional publishing, "we are using the online service to enhance the print

magazine", for several reasons. It is environmentally safe, "Publish without

Paper", most are free, "$50 a month on CompuServe", you can get any article from

any year at the touch of a button, and you can search for key words. "Search

engines make it easy pinpointing just the information you nee...

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Chris Carder, "Sports on the Internet a winner", Toronto Computes, November,

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Chris Carder, "Sports on the Internet a winner", Toronto Computes, November,

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Patrick McKenna, "Netscape's Digital Envelope For Internet Transactions", The

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P. 75

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Bill Kempthorne, "Internet, So What?", The Computer Paper, September, (1995), p.

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Bill Kempthorne, "Internet, So What?", The Computer Paper, September, (1995), p.

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Sorelle Saidman, "Online Canadian Content Expanding despite Prodigy Setback",

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Bill Kempthorne, "Internet, So What?", The Computer Paper, September, (1995), p.

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