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When Journalism Met the Internet: Old Media and New Media Greet the Online Public

When Journalism Met the Internet: Old Media and New Media Greet the Online Public

Mike Dillon
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466685802|ISBN10: 1466685808|EISBN13: 9781466685819
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8580-2.ch001
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Dillon, Mike. "When Journalism Met the Internet: Old Media and New Media Greet the Online Public." Contemporary Research Methods and Data Analytics in the News Industry, edited by William J. Gibbs and Joseph McKendrick, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8580-2.ch001

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Dillon, M. (2015). When Journalism Met the Internet: Old Media and New Media Greet the Online Public. In W. Gibbs & J. McKendrick (Eds.), Contemporary Research Methods and Data Analytics in the News Industry (pp. 1-16). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8580-2.ch001

Chicago

Dillon, Mike. "When Journalism Met the Internet: Old Media and New Media Greet the Online Public." In Contemporary Research Methods and Data Analytics in the News Industry, edited by William J. Gibbs and Joseph McKendrick, 1-16. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8580-2.ch001

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Abstract

American news organizations have long been criticized for failing to anticipate, appreciate and exploit the Internet as it became a fact of daily life in the mid-1990s. This chapter explores and analyzes the lack of planning that stymied the development of journalism on the Web and cast doubt on the viability of traditional public-service journalism with its enduring values of accuracy, fairness and advocacy. Specifically, the essay documents and analyzes the online debuts of two venerable “old media” news outlets (The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times) and two “new media” Web news outlets (Salon and Slate) in the mid-1990s by exploring the claims they made about their aims, purposes and expectations as they introduced themselves to the public via their salutatory editorials. It is a cautionary tale for a digital world that reconfigures itself in ever-quickening cycles.

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