Newspapers Slow to Use Web Sites for 9/11 Coverage

Abstract

This analysis of 89 U.S. daily newspaper Web sites on Sept. 11, 2001, shows that 65 percent of the home pages in the late morning and 38 percent in the late afternoon said nothing about the World Trade Center bombings. By late afternoon only 43 percent of the home pages had at least one photo or video of the 9/11 attacks.

Chinese Newspapers and Market Theories of Web Journalism

“…The web editions with more internet features than the rest tended to belong to the newspapers with larger circulations than the rest. This, too, is consistent with studies of web newspapers elsewhere in Asia (Massey, 2000) and in the US (Greer and Mensing, 2004;Randle et al, 2003;Schultz, 1999;Tankard and Ban, 1998;Weiss, 2004), although few of them tested theory.…”

The immediacy of online news, the visibility of journalistic processes and a restructuring of journalistic authority

“…This refers to the implementation of immediacy and how immediacy makes its mark on the actual content of the news. Randle et al (2003) found that 89 US daily newspapers were very slow to update their websites with information about the 9/11 attack, not fully using the medium's potential for immediacy.…”