Newspapers adapting journalism to Internet reading habits - Editors Weblog- Analysis

Newspapers adapting journalism to Internet reading habits - Editors Weblog- Analysis: "Many longtime print readers are averse to reading Internet news. It requires a completely different sort of reading to that which they are accustomed, from headline, to body, to accompanying images. Most newspapers haven’t picked up on this fact and have not changed their publishing strategies." I have written about this before. I had a similar experience in grad school. Should I give up yellow legal pads for computer composition as I started my dissertation? It was a problem because I knew the more efficient computer composition method would take time to learn. I had to decide if time spent in the learning curve would be made up in the long run. It was. Similarly, a few years ago, I realized that if one is to keep up with Internet news, technology, tools--the whole ball of wax--one had to use the Internet to keep track of information. Basically, you forgo your world of paper rolodexes, notes on paper stickes, paper copies of what you read that was interesting, for effective online bookmark organizers, saving what you read online as .pdf, and generally setting up the work environment so you can take advantage of electronic searching and other efficient tools. So, the same idea is filtering through to news providers, realizing that it does make a difference how people read and how your news looks on the page.

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