And that's the way it will be
Subtitle: news and information in a digital world
By: Christopher Harper.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Journalism -- Data processing; Electronic periodicals; Information networks
Description: And That's the Way It Will Be argues convincingly that digital journalism has the potential to reverse the decline in prestige of the mainstream media. Focusing on the public's dissatisfaction with traditional communication sources, seasoned journalist Christopher Harper evaluates computers as a means of providing and receiving news and information.

Harper profiles some of the key players in the world of digital journalism including Microsoft, America Online, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Time Warner. He assesses the impact of digital news in poor neighborhoods and the developing world and explores the issues of pornography, privacy, and government regulation of the Internet's news and information system.

The volume closes with predictions about the future by presidents of communications organizations, computer experts, network news anchors, software developers, columnists, online editors, and Web designers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: A road map to the information superhighway; title: The audience : who wants news and information in a digital world and why?; title: The movers and the shakers in digital journalism; title: Immediacy, interactivity, and intimacy; title: Doing digital journalism : the Chicago tribune and TWA 800; title: All the news, all the time : the Internet and television; title: Paying for the digital age : advertising, subscriptions, and business; title: The upside of the Internet; title: The downside of the Internet; title: The dark side of the Internet : pornography and privacy; title: The government and the Internet : freedom of the press, copyright, advertising, and fraud; title: The future of the Internet.