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Why the Internet Is (Mostly) Good for News

Concerns about news trends on the Web sound all too familiar.

Winter 2000: Peering Into the Digital Future Introduction

Our journey into the digital future begins with an essay by Tom Regan, associate editor of The Christian Science Monitor’s Web site. His advice: Remember that technology is changing journalism,…

Not Just a Newspaper on the Web

At projo.com, value is added when newspaper and Web staffs work together.

Winter 2000: Building New Homes for News Introduction

At The Providence Journal, online editor Andrea Panciera writes that all sorts of barriers between the online and print staffs must be broken down so that “the editorial voice that…

Meeting at the Internet’s Town Square

Will information fragmentation splinter society?

Winter 2000: Journalist’s Trade Introduction

Richard Wexler, a former reporter and journalism professor, now executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, contends that journalists’ usual coverage of child welfare revolves around a…

The Internet, the Law, and the Press

From e-mail use to global distribution, legal decisions might hamper press freedoms.

Winter 2000: International Journalism Introduction

John Maxwell Hamilton, a veteran correspondent and now dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, recently traveled to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to…

Caught in a Master Narrative

It’s Why Many Stories About Child Welfare Get It Wrong.

Digitization and the News

For better or for worse, the digital revolution is changing journalism.