Immediacy
From SA Online Journalism
The Internet and online news websites allow journalists to publish news almost instantly. While 24-hour television and radio networks perhaps remain the quickest in breaking and updating a news story, the audience still has to wait for information to be transmitted to them.
It is the ability of the Web to deliver the latest on a story, on demand, that separates it from other media. Why wait for the television bulletin to cycle to the story (often through advert breaks and weather reports) when you can access it online, immediately?
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[edit] Recommended Readings
[edit] Academic Papers
Lasica, J. 2000. Online Journalism and the Starr Investigation.
[edit] Articles
Benning, J. 2000. 28 February 2000 [Modified 1 July 2002] ChicagoTribune.com: the Windy City as it happens.Online Journalism Review .
Braiker, B. 9 July 2005. History's new first draft. Newsweek.
Glaser, M. 16 December 2003. Online News Scores Coup on Hussein's Capture as Papers Are Caught Napping. Online Journalism Review .
[edit] Websites
[edit] Journalism and immediacy
Why is getting the story out first important? A brief look at journalism's quest for immediacy (newspaper extras, radio, TV, rise of 24 hours news), including the rise of the "online scoop".
[edit] How immediate is online news?
Explore the spectrum from "slow" shovelware to instant blogs.
