The Internet has given rise to a new form of journalism: It’s pure grassroots but is also imperfect, error prone, untraceable and combative. Alexander discusses three trends happening with respect to this new journalism.

Because the Internet makes it easier to distribute news to far-away or hard-to-reach places and to compare how different news organizations cover an event, news providers have to be better at understanding and covering local news. News providers are also dealing with demands spurred by the Internet for 24-hour news, for news to be broken faster and more often and for news customization or personalization.

This book explores technology and journalism in the electronic newsroom.

Web-based publishing may be technologically advanced, but when it comes to drawing the line between advertising and editorial, some new media are re-opening very old dilemmas and debates.

Fallows argues that real journalism is being practiced on the Internet. He addresses ways the Internet has changed journalism: No space constraints allow for full text and links that refer readers to background material, supplemental details, original documents, and all the other forms of data that made the process of reporting the story instructive for the journalist. The Internet also allow for personalized news Web pages.

Web users are hungry for the latest news. How newspaper sites will satisfy that appetite raises some tough economic and editorial questions.

An interview with Bill Emmott, editor-in-chief of “The Economist” in which he addresses the impact of the Internet on print publications, such as the growing role for providing analysis and helping the public better comprehend all the information being thrust at them.

This article suggests the Internet has given rise to new ethical considerations for news gathering and reporting. It explores how the Internet is shaping journalism ethics and how the Internet ethic is steering journalism in new directions. It explores the argument that the challenge facing online journalists is to balance the legitimate desires of the online audience for up-to-the-minute reports with the profession’s traditions of fairness, completeness, balance and accuracy.

Digitization potentially changes everything about the manner in which news is produced and consumed. Maynard discusses how digitization changes the manner in which news is produced and consumed. He addresses quantity (frequency), quality and speed.

Pavlik addresses how new media is transforming journalism: news content is changing as a result of new technology; the way journalists do their work is being retooled; structure of the newsroom and news industry is transforming; and new media are bringing about a realignment of the relationship between and among news organizations, journalists and their many publics.

With the arrival of broadband Internet access, journalists and academics are experimenting with devices that could become everyday reality once access to the Internet at speeds of up to 622 megabits per second is generally available. John Pavlik, professor of journalism and director of the Center for New Media, is working on a prototype mobile journalist workstation.

Regan discusses how new media is changing the way journalists do their jobs. They want to generate audio and video along with text; they want their e-mail address on everything they write; they want to participate in chats and forums; they want to use the new tools of modern storytelling available on a medium like the Web because they will add richness and depth to any piece; they want to be able to get pieces to readers as fast as possible.

Frank discusses the effect of the Internet on mainstream news media. Web journalism has problems, including anybody being able to post on a site what they believe to be news.

Sheerin, editor in chief of Electronic Buyers’ News, explains how EBN’s online presence has changed the way it approaches its weekly newspaper. News is posted as it happens with more analytical, in-depth pieces and companion stories being printed in the next day’s newspaper.

Singer examines the print and online versions of six Colorado newspapers, comparing the amount of local and non-local news, sports and business content in each. The findings indicate online products have a much stronger local orientation than print ones.

Overview of an interview with Marshall Loeb, former editor of Fortune and Money magazines. Loeb says that in order to compete with the speed of online news services, print media will have to adjust by providing more in-depth analysis. He predicts that broadcasting will become more sensationalistic in order to compete.

This article examines the how the Internet has made possible the rise of Indymedia and it’s creation of alternative systems of news production, distribution and consumption. Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage (the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.)

The rapid development of the Internet has forced changes in newsroom behavior. Journalists now have access to information in virtual libraries, public records databases and numerous online encyclopedias. However, longstanding notions of accountable, reliable and quality journalism are under intolerable pressure in the hothouse atmosphere of global competition.