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This 6 page paper explores online journalism to decipher its place in the history of journalism. Where does net journalism fit in? What is its future? What is the difference between online journalism and print journalism? These questions are explored after providing a brief historical account of print journalism. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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from news that appears on the Internet. It becomes clear that interactivity is the hallmark of the Internet, and even when television shows of late would allow for interactivity, there
would be web sites posted and interactivity could only be accomplished with the use of the Internet as well. In other words, television and the net had to be married
to some extent. In light of the information on interactivity, how can can on-line journalism be placed in the evolution of print, and in the evolution of the functions
of the media? In other words, what is the role of Internet in respect to a history of journalism? First, it pays to look at the evolution of print media
to see how the Internet really fits in the scheme of things. The newspaper evolved out of about four distinct stages in the publication of news (Towers, 1997).
The first stage concerned the publication of one story, and this was known as a relation; a relation was actually a historical account of what was considered to be a
newsworthy item (1997). The second stage of the evolution-which occurred during the seventeenth century--involved the publication of what was called a coranto; this was a publication where many different items
of news described the events of a recent period and were run end to end(Smith, 1979 as cited in Towers, 1997). The coranto generally would appear weekly, and it contemplated
global news as well (1997). This sounds very similar to modern day newspapers, but it really was rather sparse in comparison. Thus, the newspaper had awhile to go. The third
stage in the birth of the newspaper had been the establishment of a printed account of the news and occurrences of an entire week (Towers, 1997). Such a publication would
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