Mission Multimedia
by David M. Cole
Taken from Presstime, May 2000

    "Print, television, radio, the internet and whatever comes next-newsroom trailblazers do it all."  This is the headline of the story.  

    The basic idea of the article is to mention just how much the news industry has changed over the years.  Just as we subtly touched on in class, the newspapers of the world are beginning to take up new strategies when it comes to technology.  These ideas include, but are not limited to, the internet. 

    As we all today know, the Internet permiates nearly every facit of a persons life, that is, if you allow it to help your life along by making it easier.  The news industry, as reported by this article, is no different.

    I, personaly, enjoyed this story, simply becuase I was helping to run a newspaper well before the advent of the internet (or at least before it came to  my high school. We had to rely on good old fashioned reporting and drafting.  As also stated by this article, t-squares and drawing tables have been replaced by a mouse and a screen.  While is it romantic to think of the old ways, one must agree that the new ways are far more efficient and often more pleasing to the eye.  
    It is also is interesting to note how the newspaper, while not only embracing new technologies in its own operations, is also taking up new business that are being created by the internet.  These would include  webpage design and new digital wire services.  

    I personaly am a big proponent of the age of technology, and I have a bit of knowledge concerning the ways of journalism.  Binding these two concepts together is definatly an interesting, as well as profitable, concept.