Technology

1994: A New Agenda for Journalism

A Call for Action to Stake Out the Role of News in the Emerging Technological World

Winter 1999 – Spring 2000: Electronic Media Introduction

From the 1940’s through the 1990’s, technological innovation in electronic media has tugged print journalism into unaccustomed realms of news reporting. During earlier decades, this tug came most strongly from…

The Triumph Of Text

I’m not very good at prognostication, although I have had my moments. I predicted in January of 1992 that Bill Clinton would become president. (I have witnesses, I swear.) I…

On-line Profits From News Must Wait

In the three years or so that media organizations have operated on-line news sites very few, if any, have made a profit. There aren’t many success stories to highlight. The…

On the Web, Speed Instead of Accuracy

It was, yet again,another "defining" moment for on-line media. Most of the early details of the alleged affair between President Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky had emerged on…