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Friday, August 21, 2009

Computer vs Paper

Due to the outbreak in technology, online news had made its way to the scenario of journalism, of news reporting, and gathering. The emergence of computers, the internet, and the World Wide Web has aid the journalism industry in print to be at par with the other existing media like broadcast which includes radio and television. With this, hard copies online newspapers already exist blurring the line which separates broadcast and print media. This also aid in the existing online journalism.


Advantages of Online Journalism


1. It allows newspaper to effectively compete with broadcast medium using the internet as a venue for breaking news.
2. This contributes to the existence of mobile news.
3. Movement away from the use of paper which helps in decreasing the production cost.
4. Existence of wired newsroom.
5. Borderless reporting.
6. Instant updating of news stories.


Online news vs Print media

Nowadays, online news and print media are working hand-in-hand in order to perform their media’s main role which is to be the watchdog of the society and to cater the publics’ right to information.

The existence of online news is both a boon and a bane in the print media industry. It is a boon since print media can also venture into online so that they will be able to compete effectively with broadcast media. At the same time, it is a bane because journalists need to write in both medium. Another reason why it is a disadvantage is the fact that, since online has an unlimited space, advertisers may prefer more the online medium than the print since it has wider scope even though they need to pay the higher price.

With regards to the issue of credibility, the articles’ credibility does not only depend on the medium which is being used. It is more on the writer’s credibility and at the same time the ‘brand’ which it represents. Brand refers to the name or site of the online or print publication where the article can be found.


Non-existence of Print Media?

There was the notion that in the near future, it will be difficult to find daily newspapers in the UK or United States that does not have or share a website. But this does not mean that there will no longer be the existence of Print media.

Print media, being a traditional medium, served as the foundation of other media since printing was discovered first. Online media may exist, but people will still go back to the traditional medium since they can have the hard copies kept and read it anytime they want. Memories printed in hard copies is usually treasured more compared to those that come in soft copy forms.

Online vs print for advertisers (http://ezinearticles.com/?Online-vs-Print-Media&id=1452522)
Online vs print: Issue of space (http://nlieu.blogspot.com/2006/09/online-vs-print-news.html)
Competition between online and print (http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2001/online-media-versus-traditional-print-media/)

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