Impact of Internet On Process, Production, Storing, Retrieval The spread of computers, software and the Internet is changing how reporters work. Reporters now routinely collect information in databases, analyze public records, conduct interviews by e-mail, and research background for articles on the Web. Other major way the Internet and web have improved journalism is that they have made it possible for a journalist with a laptop, mobile Phone and digital camera to work from literally almost anywhere in the world, instead of being limited to working from newsrooms and bureau offices, as they were in the past.E-mail interviews are also valuable because they provide a written record of answers and are a useful research tool for background information in follow-up stories, features and investigative journalism. E-mail has become a great tool for interviewing people and also for forwarding information and text as well as photos and graphics. It is also particularly useful for interviewing people, or contacting people, who live in different time zones.
However, unlike other interviews it has the disadvantage of no voice-to-voice contact to detect nuances of mood and character and no room for impromptu questions. E-mail interviews rarely stand-alone and
follow-up telephone calls are often needed for clarification and verification. Journalist can write and edit reports and news stories on the laptop or computer and send his reports or news stories to the news room from any location in the world. They can even send pictures and images taken by mobile phone or digital camera through email facility. The Internet provides the journalist with a vast range of new opportunities for feedback, customization of content, instant publishing, archiving, (hyper)linking, the use of audio and video, etc., all of which can have serious implication for online media production and in particular online news presentation.
A news story on the Internet should be structured in chunks of information, all linked to one primary 'anchor text,' which can be seen as the top level that provides the essence of the story. This implies a nonlinear type of storytelling that might combine aspects of both print and broadcast media. It is, of course, important that the online journalist can keep the reader curious enough to browse through the different chunks of information (Fredin & David, 1998). "Primary and highly related aspects of cyber-communication which are at the core of its media logic, and which will continue to present news to shape to the formats of cyber-journalism in the future, are: multimedia, hyper textual, interaction and archival.
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