Journalism and the new way to compose online

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Electronic newspapers have been around since the middle of the 1990's; but, recently they have really been popping up on the internet in the past five years.  Many of people's hometown newspapers have been going out of business due to lack of revenue, advertisement, and most of all the convenience of the instant news on our cell phones, computers, and 24 hour news cable channels.  Online Journalism is quite different than print news because they must have a heading that captures the internet audience quickly and made more personal to the individual user.  What i mean about being more personal to the individual internet user is by allowing other sites to be linked with the newspaer or online article; such as personal blog sites.  These personal blog sites not only benefit the user, but the journalist as well.  The blogs can be set-up for a particular discussion about an article and give users the right to make comments about the subject matter; and in addition, this also brings more people to review the article too.   If you recall about two years ago when Anna Nicole smith died there were so many online journalistic articles with links to blog sites in order for people to discuss who may be responsible for her death and her son's death.  There was an internet frenzy, cable news channels were also carrying her court case live from Florida as to where she would want to be buried.

Online newspapers as they refine their content with the current issues, will help them increase their audience and online advertisers''; thus, their profits may surpass when they were just printed newspapers on your doorsteps.  The online juornalist must also take into consideration that their content is ethical; and they also have to deal with plagerism, pirates, hackers, and make sure that their hyperlinks are well encrypted.