Web has unexpected effect on journalism

I feel that this article really speaks to our class. I'm not going to summarize, I'll just let you read the article for yourself. However, this section was particularly interesting:

News is less a product, like the day's newspaper or a nightly newscast, than a
service that is constantly being updated, he said. Last week, for instance, The
New York Times posted its first report linking New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to a
prostitution ring in the early afternoon, and it
quickly became the day's
dominant story.

Only a few years ago, newspaper Web sites were primarily considered an online
morgue for that day's newspaper, Rosenstield said.

"The afternoon newspaper is in a sense being reborn online," he said.

A separate survey found journalists are, to a large degree, embracing the
changes being thrust upon them. A majority say they like doing blogs and that
they appreciate reader feedback on their stories. When they're asked to do
multimedia projects, most journalists find the experience enriching instead of
feeling overworked, he said. The newsroom is increasingly being seen as the most
experimental place in the business, the report found.

So, even though reporters are embracing the new tools available to them, their story choices have narrowed greatly, which is a very interesting development.