Topic: The Internet

Global Issues Viewed Through Local Eyes
New media—and new ‘newsroom’ arrangements—combine to make local coverage of environmental issues compelling and personal.
By Perry Beeman

Sights and Sounds of a Newspaper’s Editorials
An editorial page editor describes ‘a wide-open, creative new world for journalists who want to make use of new media and relate to newspaper readers in new ways.’
By Susan Albright

When the Web Feeds the Newspaper
The letter ‘i’ in iHerald stands for ‘interactivity, the individual and the Internet.’
By Eric Blom

Going Online With Watchdog Journalism
‘… investigative reporting itself is also on the cusp of major transformation ….’
By Paul E. Steiger

Good Journalism Can Be Good Business
‘Let’s not pull the plug on for-profit journalism just yet.’
By Daniel Brogan

Instilling a Watchdog Culture in the Newsroom
‘Watchdog work is not just about projects; it’s about an approach to beat coverage that should be reflected in daily and longer-form work.’
By Lorie Hearn

It’s an Online World for Young People and Political News
‘My generation doesn't trust what the lone anchor tells us, nor the pundit, nor the panel of experts.’
By Jonathan Seitz

Reporting From Kansas for MTV’s Street Team
‘If we want to be successful on the Web, it‘s got to be “guerrilla journalism,” edgy and unpredictable.’
By Alex Parker

Narrative Journalism in the Era of the Web
‘Once the idea of using footnotes took hold, the question became whether we could use them for more than their usual purpose of attribution …’
By Lee Hancock and Mark Miller

Newspapers and Their Quest for the Holy Grail
Putting the Web first might be ‘the most difficult transformation in our mindset, but we should go ahead and flip our world on its head.’
By Michael Riley

Plagiarism Goes by a Different Name on the Web
A journalism class experiences firsthand ‘the slippery new terms being used in our slippery times.’
By Judy Muller

Valuable Web Sites About Indian Country
By Victor Merina

A Newspaper Talks With Readers in a Cyber Town Square
‘Changes wrought by the Internet demand that newspapers innovate, and that means experimentation as we move beyond the boundaries of our known world.’
By Patrick Dougherty

A New Journalism for Democracy in a New Age
By Bill Kovach

A Dinosaur Adapts
‘Unencumbered by the need to squeeze words into a finite space, the Internet proved better for me, as the writer, and I'd argue for readers, too, than newsprint.’
By Kevin Cullen

Caught in the Web
‘With the Web, we could be witnessing the most important development in expressive media since the advent of writing.’
By Jon Palfreman

Looking Past the Rush Into Convergence
As technology drives big newsroom changes, what will happen to journalism?
By Edward Wasserman

Community Building on the Web: Implications for Journalism
The founder of craigslist speaks about online lessons he shares with new media journalists.
By Craig Newmark

Confronting the Dual Challenge of Print and Electronic News
‘To make best use of both editions, we need to be increasingly disciplined about what goes where.’
By Paul E. Steiger

Feeding the Web While Reporting the Story
At The New York Times, multimedia storytelling is becoming more a part of the journalism and less of an afterthought.
By Neil Chase

Myths and Realities of Convergence
‘… news organizations will be best served if they focus on stories—not delivery platforms.’
By Randy Covington

When Walls Come Tumbling Down
The Associated Press is making ‘radical adjustments’ to its news reports and business strategies in response to the Web.
By Jim Kennedy

When the Internet Reveals a Story
‘The challenge for me was to get the story off the Internet and into print.’
By Seth Hettena

Defining a Journalist’s Function
In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism.
By William F. Woo

Journalism as a Conversation
‘Only as an afterthought did it dawn on us that the audience is the real content on the Web.’
By Jean K. Min

Reconnecting With the Audience
‘What they say—not what we think—is what counts.’
By Clyde H. Bentley

How Participatory Journalism Works
A journalist describes why and how ‘a news organization works with its audience to have that “conversation” that is news.’
By Steve Safran

Getting Acquainted With Newspapers and Journalism
Students who didn’t read newspapers started doing so, and before long they knew a lot about journalism and were inventing news outlets of their own.
By Susan E. Tifft

Organizing the New News
‘… the greater velocity of information today multiplies the opportunities for confusing and misleading the public.’
By Philip Meyer

Accepting the Challenge: Using the Web to Help Newspapers Survive
‘Meeting us where we are—with a great Web site, content that works well in digital media, told in ways we can absorb and share—is a step in the right direction.’
By Luke Morris

What Young People Don’t Like About the Web—And News On It
‘… news organizations need to pay attention to what young people say about what makes them tune out on news sites.’
By Vivian Vahlberg

Traditional Media in the Digital Age
Data about news habits and advertiser spending lead to a reassessment of media’s prospects and possibilities.
By Douglas Ahlers and John Hessen

Ethical Values and Quality Control in the Digital Era
‘Situations that editors confront in this digital-era maelstrom reflect the vexing ethical challenges and the diminished quality control standards at a time when they are most needed.’
By Bob Steele

The News Media’s 30-Year Hibernation
Online newspapers ‘are not creative. They are not interactive. They’re too much like newspapers.’
By David Carlson

Creating The Online Timeline
By David Carlson

Suggest a Topic—And Content Flows to It
‘… content becomes a roaring campfire that gathers around it a thoughtful and engaged group of people.’
By John A. Byrne

Where the Monitor Is Going, Others Will Follow
A decade ago, resistance at The Christian Science Monitor to its online site almost killed it. Now, the newspaper is depending on the Web for its survival.
By Tom Regan

Tracking Behavior Changes on the Web
Evidence accumulated in a major study reveals significant shifts in how people deal with knowledge and information—shifts that affect young people the most.
By David Nicholas

Distracted: The New News World and the Fate of Attention
‘As a term, “multitasking” doesn’t quite do justice to all the ways in which we fragment our attention.’
By Maggie Jackson

Finding a Different Path Into the Newsroom
For Native students, a summer journalism institute, an online newspaper, and internships can lead to full-time jobs.
By Denny McAuliffe

Transforming the Gathering, Editing and Distribution of News
Is technology poised to replace journalists and their judgment by consuming their tasks?
By Francis Pisani

Political Journalists — Writing for Online Publications
By Tom Fiedler

Inviting Readers Into the Editorial Process
In online polling about story selection, editors at the Wisconsin State Journal learn that ‘the readers who vote consistently do choose weighty stories.’
By Ellen Foley

Meshing Purpose With Product
Heeding the warning against forcing ‘existing quality standards into new technology,’ a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future.
By Philip Meyer

Gathering Voices to Share With a Worldwide Online Audience
‘Global Voices pulls together interesting threads of conversation and reporting from the global cacophony of blogging voices.’
By Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman

New Sources of Funding, New Sources of Reporting
As nonprofit investigative models take shape, a journalist surveys emerging possibilities.
By Gilbert Cranberg

Are Journalists the 21st Century's Buggy Whip Makers?
Newspapers might vanish, too, if they continue to ‘dream of past dominance while taking their product and trying to fit it into their competitor's terrain.’
By William Dietrich

Puzzling Contradictions of China's Internet Journalism
A journalist who has worked in China says that ‘the Internet has strengthened the power of the central government, not undermined it.’
By Fons Tuinstra

Fast-Paced Journalism's Neglect of Nuance and Context
‘In online reporting, news breaks and context is often added later.’
By Sam Stein

For Campaign Coverage, Web Too Often an Afterthought
‘Big news projects on the campaign are still conceived in The Washington Post's newsroom as traditional newspaper stories.’
By Russ Walker

Risk-Adverse Newspapers Won't Cross the Digital Divide
‘Newspapers lacked the external vision necessary to see the vast range of opportunities created by the Internet.’
By Chris Cobler

Journalism and Web 2.0
‘Tomorrow’s potential readers are using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how.’
By Francis Pisani

Taking the Big Gulp
‘The Web is its own medium with its own characteristics. It is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.’
By Jane Ellen Stevens

Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Became a Citizen Journalist
By Barry Parr

The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It?
By Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis

Caught Between the Cold War and the Internet
How foreign news will be covered is a question—with a few possible answers.
By Fons Tuinstra

Reinventing A Newspaper’s Web Site
The online Los Angeles Times is ‘very different. It should be different. It should look different.’
By Barbara A. Serrano

Wondering About the Wonders of Technology
By Francis Pisani

The Internet: Continuing the Legacy of Storytelling
‘I often reflect on my work as a journalist and wonder if I’ve some inherent genetic code that comes from this time-honored practice.’
By Victor Merina

A Retired Newspaper Journalist Takes What He Knows to the Web
‘What “sold” RappVoice to the local audience was solid and timely reporting, analysis, and in-depth explanation of complex subjects ….’
By James P. Gannon

Web v. Journalism: Court Cases Challenge Long-Held Principles
‘… courts and legislatures, reluctant to apply different rules to the “old” and “new” media, are rethinking the basic constitutional principles that have protected a free press for generations.’
By Jane Kirtley

Why Anonymity Exists and Works on Newspapers' Web Sites
‘If we require real names in print, shouldn’t we do the same thing online?’
By Steve Yelvington

Online Timeline
By David Carlson