As online news sites were recording history this election, they were also making it. Record numbers of people went online for news, marking the first true test of the medium. This past election set records around the country – and not just in the variety of ways the word “chad” could be used in a […]
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When a broadcast tower fire threw several Moscow TV stations off the air last week, many would-be TV viewers turned to the Internet. In some cases, traffic to news sites doubled from usual levels. The sites reported few performance problems as a result, though one, Gazeta.ru, had to add a second server to handle the
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The future is multimedia, and journalists are quickly learning to tailor their work for different mediums Late last year, Chicago Tribune reporter William Gaines got together with the newspaper’s jazz critic, Howard Reich, to do a piece about jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton. They wrote the article, and it ran in the paper. If it
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The Internet is changing the playing field for both ad agencies and their clients White the Pioneer Valley still lags behind other areas of the country in terms of Internet marketing, it is expected to do a good deal of catching up in 2000. This will bring both opportunities and challenges for the region’s advertising
