The Handbook of Global Online Journalism

Abstract

In 1993, a couple of months after the launch of the first web browser, Mosaic, the University of Florida ' s Journalism Department launched what is generally considered to be the first online journalism web site.It was a very basic, static web site, with a picture of the red-bricked wall of the Journalism Department.It was updated only occasionally, at nights and weekends, when the machine was not in use by others, running on a 486-25 processor with 4 megabytes of random access memory (RAM).About a year later, in November 1994, The UK ' s Daily Telegraph launched the Electronic Telegraph , which was a similarly static page, with articles one on top of the other.The online publication followed the rhythm of print publishing, posting online contents once a day.In a 2001 article, Derek Bishton detailed the Electronic Telegraph ' s remit: to explore the new medium, its technological and commercial possibilities, as well as the scope for the launch of the Telegraph as an online brand (Bishton, 2001 ).And in this rather slow, uneventful manner began the history of online journalism, and the creation of a new kind of journalism that has changed the face of journalism forever.The 20 years or so since then have seen developments that were both gradual, such as the slow adoption of the Internet ' s features of hyperlinking, interactivity, and multimediality, and radical, as witnessed by the shift toward the participatory web and social media.The initial reluctance of journalistic sites to employ these features was eventually replaced with unfettered enthusiasm, while more recently no self-respecting journalistic site remains without a blog, a Facebook, and Twitter account.Thus, the relationship between the new media and journalism, which began in fits and starts, has become a close embrace to the extent that it is difficult to imagine an exclusively offline journalism.Theorists, practitioners, students, and readers/consumers/users of online journalism are all involved and have a stake in this relationship, and seek to understand how journalism 10.

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