During a session I moderated to the Knight New Media Center seminar on Election ’08 on Thursday, we discussed the networked nature of news in the era of the Internet. This was one of the themes that emerged in other presentations too. It is the idea that news organisations are part of a network of information.
In this digital and discontinuous environment, users forage for information, going from source to source, creating their own individual ‘story’ from multiple sources. It means that news becomes a journey, rather than a destination. A news website from a mainstream news organisation is just one stop on this voyage.
For more on how newspapers should rethink their web presence in the light of the new reality, Northwestern University professor Rich Gordon has some advice on how to be part of the new architecture of news.
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