Newspapers | Magazines | Born on the Web | ManyMedia | Commentary/Discussion

Familiar and unfamiliar faces:
Newspapers, magazines, and
publications born on the Web.

This is a collection of links and comments about the arrival of news (and other) publishing on the World Wide Web. It was originally a 1995 list for discussion by students in what is now UNC's JOMC-50, then stayed around for other visitors. It has grown into a five-part collection of more comments and links than you'll have time to read unless you give up having a life.


Newspapers | Magazines | Born on the Web | Convergence/ManyMedia | Commentary/Discussion

Approaches:

  1. Browse around your favorite kinds of media, find a few sites that interest you, and get a general idea of what they offer.
  2. Read a couple of the articles cited at the end of the list and make yourself an outline of the authors' suggestions for "news" publications online.
  3. Look at a couple of publications from each category below to see how well they fit the writers' descriptions, for better or for worse.
                  --- Bob Stepno

Note: If you want to read my own comments on some of these publications, see the annotated list, which is so long that you may prefer to its one-page-per-topic version. Let me know what you think.


Newspapers | Magazines | Born on the Web | ManyMedia | Commentary/Discussion

Newspapers

Here are a few more online papers (I'd be happy to highlight particular stories; send me your nominations):

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Magazines


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Born on the Web


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Convergence: TV, radio, mixed media and more

  • News Corp.

  • Other broadcast companies & mergers

  • ...many more publications


    Newspapers | Magazines | Born on the Web | ManyMedia | Commentary/Discussion

    Commentary/Discussion

  • Online or Not, Newspapers Suck by Jon Katz, originally in Wired magazine.
  • Joshua Quittner introduced Way New Journalism in two articles in Wired. (Quittner later went to Time magazine's Digital Daily.)
  • Carl Steadman on the failings of "way new journalism." in the online Feed Mag, March '96. (hit "cancel" if asked for a password)
  • Driving a Newspaper on the Data Highway by Mindy McAdams, co-author of The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists.
  • The Evolution of the Newspaper of the Future by Chris Lapham
  • Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News: Technology's Impact on Journalism, by Ellen Hume
  • Katherine Fulton saw the online world coming in 1993, for Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) and kept looking in 1996 with http://www.journalism.now -- A tour of our uncertain future.
  • Digital reporting: We're All Nerds Now (CJR March/April 1999), includes comments from pioneers in precision journalism or computer assisted reporting.

  • This page was created by Bob Stepno.
    Please let me know when you notice that a link has stopped working.
    The Web is always under construction.

    Comments: bob@stepno.com


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