Some papers had electronic editions that were not originally available on the web, but most, if not all, of these have migrated to web versions. The San Jose Mercury News is an example. When it began online publication, the Mercury Center only was available through America Online. Now, the Merc is web-based and is one of the old guard of new media. Approaches to design If you explore a number of online newspapers, you'll see that they take different approaches to information design and presentation, though some commonalities sem to be emerging.
Some electronic newspapers offer lists of stories indexed by headlines or headlines and summaries.
This is the way many organizations begin exploring electronic publication. The Oregon Daily Emerald is a good example of a useful approach. Some use designed pages, with text and photos arrayed in one fashion or another. Others used HTML tables coding to attempt to recreate the look and feel of a traditional newspaper page. The Detroit News tried that approach but redesigned a while ago to a more typical index treatment.