Nevertheless, it is important that all in the class have basic familiarity with essential features of journalistic writing in a computer-mediated context. So please give the following full attention. Click here for an extended listing of on-line newspapers . The backbone of these technologies isn't apparent in any terminal device, but instead resides in telecommunications networks. One of the major efforts in the past 20 years has been to test the feasibility of delivering newspapers by electronic means.
Newspapers confront problems of newsprint and physical distribution.
Electronic dissemination affords relief from these escalating costs and may allow print media a way of matching the instantaneousness of broadcast. The medium may not translate well to electronics. Some examples . . . Largely, these efforts have failed or have evolved into modern on-line commercial services shown above. In the late 1980s, these simple text and graphics to screen technologies began to evolve in order to find success and better use the electronic characteristics at their base.