What is the future of online journalism?
Traditional news gathering organizations, publishers, and broadcasters will continue to enlarge their efforts on the Web, and this big money journalism will take advantage of higher Internet bandwidth and new technologies (streaming audio and video, “push”, etc.) to recreate the traditional broadcast approach on the Web. Blogs have also become a popular venue for ordinary people to engage in online journalism. Meanwhile, both within those big organizations and outside them, journalists will continue to experiment and discover how best to use the native capabilities of the Web — hyperlinks, interactivity, personalization, community, threaded discussions, etc. — to create new, hybrid editorial environments in which readers become “co-creators” along with the journalist, bringing their responses, questions, experience, to add to the story threads that the professional journalist launches. The Web will continue to enable publications for smaller, more specialized audiences. The ultimate
