Other Articles
About Online News Media

Selected articles:

• Path from Old Media to New Becomes More Crowded
  "Old media" journalists are jumping ship to sign up for new media jobs. From The New York Times, May 18, 1999.

• Internet News Audience Goes Ordinary
  As more people connect to the Net, the most popular stops become more mainstream: weather and entertainment news, for example. "44% of online users think that an accurate picture of what is going on in the world is more often found on the Internet than in daily newspapers or on network news broadcasts." This report comes from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press from a study conducted in late 1998.

• The Future of the Printed Press: Challenges in a Digital World
  A thorough, book-length examination by Monique van Dusseldorp for the European Journalism Centre (1998).

• Raising Caen
  William Powers remembers Herb Caen of The San Francisco Chronicle and finds some good lessons for the new media. No kidding, it's a good read. (From The New Republic, May 12, 1997.) Savvy quote: "The struggle of old and new media to win audiences today is not so much about newsprint versus digital impulses as it is about the definition of community."

• A Tour of Our Uncertain Future
  In which Katherine Fulton discovers that nonlinearity is inescapable and that the online world, like all systems, defines and redefines its own boundaries. (From Columbia Journalism Review, March 1996.)

• My 1996 online column for American Journalism Review:
  
  • Back to the Drawing Board: It's Time to Redesign, October 1996
    
  • Why News Is Old News, September 1996
    
  • Make Sure Your Electronic Newspaper Is Plugged In, August 1996

• The Evolution of the Newspaper of the Future
  A fine, detailed analysis by Chris Lapham (Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, July 1995).

• Inventing an Online Newspaper
  The story of how The Washington Post went online in 1994 (from Interpersonal Computing and Technology, July 1995, pp. 64-90).

• Summary: Stop the Presses: Publishers Scramble into On-Line Services, but Payoff Is Unclear
  Article by Bart Ziegler in The Wall Street Journal, Page One, April 26, 1995.

• Summary: Online or Not, Newspapers Suck
  Article by Jon Katz in Wired magazine, page 50, September 1994 (2.09).

Background and history of new media:

• History of Electronic Publishing: Teletext and Videotex
• Media History Project: From Petroglyphs to Pixels
  See in particular this site's Computing History and Journalism History sections.
• Find a list of valuable articles in the Poynter Institute's New Media Resource Files; see also Poynter's New Media Bibliography.

Online media news and commentary:

• Stop the Presses!
  A three-days-a-week column written by Steve Outing specifically about what's new in the online news business. An archive of past columns is online (of course!).

• The Online Journalism Review (from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California) serves up breaking news, commentary, monthly features and Web resource guides.

• Technology and Freedom
  The Freedom Forum is a watchdog organization for our First Amendment rights. This is their eye on technology and how it threatens or supports free speech and a free press.

• The Digital Edge
  Features and news about newspapers in the online world.

• Media Central
  A one-stop shop for the latest news and Internet companies, Monday through Friday.

Also of interest:

• Contentious
  A Web zine for writers, editors, and others who create content for online media.

• Online News Association
  Founded in 1999 by working members of the online press.

I have a list of other Web sites where you can

• See online newspapers
• Find journalism resources and j-schools
• Connect to journalism organizations and publications

You may also enjoy looking at my online résumé.

All text and images copyright © 1995, 1996, 1997 by Mindy McAdams
mmcadams@well.com
Last updated May 22, 1999

Recommended: The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
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