Should media students focus on a career online and say goodbye to newspapers?
Student writer Manasa Kalkunte presents an ongoing debate Relativity, Einstein said, is all about time and space. For decades, it was also the story of print journalism – early morning deadlines and trying to fit a thousand-word story in a 500-word space. Computer technology, plus the explosion in online news, has changed much of that, and journalism educators and professionals are adapting their work and their classroom perspectives to fit the digital world. “The major difference between online and print journalism is that the internet has no limits; you can publish hundreds of pages, whereas a newspaper has limited pages,” says Ammar Bakkar, chief editor of Al Arabiya Net. Online journalism provides the best arena for distributing news quickly as it is “instant publication,” Bakkar said, adding that it offers an immediacy that traditional print formats cannot match. Faster audience reaction “Online reporting is more timely, involving more multimedia elements and attracting faster aud
