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Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet A Short History of Disruptive Technologies, 1990–2010

By Will Mari Copyright 2022
120 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

120 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

120 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet is an insightful account of what happened when the internet first arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s in the recently computerized, but still largely unchanged, newspaper industry. Providing a focused narrative of how the internet disrupted news collection, editing, presentation and dissemination, the book examines the role of the internet from... Read more

1 Introduction: newsrooms and the disruption of the internet

2 Early development of news sites in the UK and the US in the 1990s

3 The New Century Network and other large-scale industry responses to the internet’s arrival 

4 The internet and newsgathering in the late 1990s and early 2000s

5 The internet and newsgathering in the mid-to-late 2000s

6 Conclusion: the internet disrupted journalism … but what next?

Biography

Will Mari is Assistant Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, USA. He is a media historian and interested in analog-to-digital transitions in journalism and the history of media technology, more broadly. He received his PhD from the University of Washington, USA, and his MPhil from Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.