By keeping the articles from back issues a click away, digital technologies are replacing the library periodicals room's guarded stacks of dog-eared magazines and tattered newspapers. Here instead we have readable, printable text the whole world can check-out. This Web page is from the New York Times. It is updated every ten minutes with the latest news from the Associated Press. Each headline is linked to a text version of the story on a page of the New York Times Website.
Students reporting current events have the best of two worlds.
The news they quote for class or homework is as fresh as what comes over radio and television, yet the Internet provides them with text, like a newspaper or magazine. Today KSLA TV 12 News Online Washington Post.