Editor and Publisher Online Newspaper Sites Must Adjust To Life Without 'Editions'
"An online news site is more akin to a wire service than a printed publication, because it can (and should) publish news on around-the-clock basis. While the notion of "editions" still prevails at many news sites, the trend is more toward a constant publishing cycle, where news is published whenever it breaks.

Newspaper Web sites are in a period of transition, as more and more of them move into publishing news throughout the day instead of posting stories at specified times. While the idea of publishing Web "editions" is a comfortable one for a newspaper company, editions are really counter to the nature of the Internet publishing medium. Ideally, a news Web site will publish news without a set schedule."

The Washinton Post On Web, Newspapers Never Sleep
"As the journalistic precincts of cyberspace turn increasingly competitive, newspapers are transforming themselves into 24-hour news machines, in part by asking their print reporters to do double duty. The result has altered a tradition-encrusted newsroom environment that has never had to deal with round-the-clock deadlines."

""You're building a relationship with a new generation of young people for whom newsprint holds no magical qualities," said Ken Paulson, executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University."

The Round Table Group Young Adults Most Often Get Info From Net - Study
"Young adults say the Internet, not newspapers or television, is their number one source of information, a Round Table Group survey has found.

Fifty-nine percent of Internet users in the 18- to 24-year-old age group say that their household gets more "useful information" from the Net than from newspapers; 53 percent say they receive more information from the Internet than from TV.

Fully 84 percent say that their household is more likely to use the Internet to find useful information than to go to the public library. For specific questions, 68 percent are more inclined to consult the Internet than turn to a newspaper and 67 percent are more likely to go to the Net than rely on television. "

Online Journalism Review What the Pulitzers Missed: What makes a Newspaper a Newspaper? Welcome to the 21st Century, Joseph Pulitzer, where ya been?
"In the wake of this year's Pulitzer awards and the various complaints and gripes about who should have been recognized, we would like to suggest a dig deeper into the psyche of the Pulitzer policy: the question of why online news publications were not allowed to submit applications. The answer, according to the rules of the Pulitzer committee, is that only "newspapers" may apply."

"...what makes a newspaper? It's daily, it's printable, it's news, commentary and reporting and is, ostensibly, read by someone. Merriam Webster defines a newspaper as "paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising.""

Editor and Publisher Online The Race to Extend Print Circulation Digitally, Globally
"Imagine a day (not too terribly far in the future) when you are traveling, and you stop in at the United Airlines Red Carpet Club at the airport in Anchorage, Alaska. You show your membership card and request a copy of today's Miami Herald, your hometown paper. You grab a cup of coffee, sit down, and the desk clerk delivers your paper (printed, that is) in a few minutes.

Or you're on an extended business trip to Toyko, longing for news from home. You can simply log on to the Internet and view your hometown paper's Web site. Or you can walk to a nearby newsstand, insert your credit card into a news kiosk machine, request today's New York Post, and wait while a high-speed printer reproduces the current edition on 11- by 17-inch paper."

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First Monday Interactive Features of Online Papers
"According to McAdams, who helped create the Washington Post's online service, "A journalist with little online experience tends to think in terms of stories, news value, public service and things that are good to read, but a person with a lot of online experience thinks more about connection, organization, movement within and among sets of information and communication among different people". Journalists today must choose. As gatekeepers they can transfer lots of information, or they can make users a smarter, more active and questioning audience for news events and issues. Making users smarter means involving them in a collaborative experience; i.e. interaction ”