- Audience control: Allows people more power to choose the information they want.
- Nonlinearity: Allows stories that do not have a predetermined order.
- Storage and retrieval: Vast amount of information at your fingertips.
- Unlimited space: Overcomes spatial and temporal limitations.
- Multimedia: Tell stories with text, sound, video and interactive presentations.
- Interactivity and user generated content: News becomes a conversation, not a lecture.
Online news examples
News-Leader main page (Victor)
• Headlines and blurbs helpful
Wichita Eagle main page (Bryant)
• Stories ordered in layers like a traditional paper
Daily Beast
• Intriguing, but a shortcut for lazy readers?
• Also: Newsweek
Women’s Wear Daily (Anne)
• Online version can be overwhelming
• In contrast, the print version seems so lacking
St. Louis Post on Facebook (Brent and Kayla)
• Easy and interesting
PD’s standard online presence
ESPN World Series final (Aaron)
• So many options
• Huge volume of information, including lots of TEXT!
New York Times budget puzzle (me)
• Interactivity and citizenship
Challenge: Making online news pay
Pay wall + value added – Springfield Business Journal
• You don't know what you're missing unless you subscribe
Advertising – News-Leader
• Supported by corporate Gannett contracts
• Local advertising
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