Archives for April 1999

How the online news industry is evolving

April 26, 1999 by JD Lasica

I was interviewed by PBS’s Online NewsHour in 1999 and received permission to republish our exchange on my site.

Online News Industry

The Internet news industry has undergone some major changes over the last five years.

To discuss these changes is JD Lasica, new media columnist for the American Journalism Review and the Online Journalism Review. In addition to writing about online ethics for the Industry Standard newsweekly, Mr. Lasica is also managing editor of BabyCenter, an online resource for new and expectant parents.

The following are Mr. Lasica’s answers to 5 questions asked by the Online NewsHour. [Read more…] about How the online news industry is evolving

Cool Web tools in the education space

April 13, 1999 by JD Lasica

U.S. News, College Edge vie for supremacy in the education space

This column appeared April 13, 1999, in the Online Journalism Review. Here’s the version on the OJR site.

One of the fascinating battles shaping up in cyberspace pits an old media stalwart, U.S. News, against a new media upstart, College Edge. And as befits the topsy-turvy nature of the Web, they’ve formed a partnership with each other even as they’ve begun to duke it out for supremacy in the higher education space.

Their weapons of choice? Web tools. [Read more…] about Cool Web tools in the education space

Conveying the war in human terms

April 10, 1999 by JD Lasica

The Net provides an alternative channel for finding out what’s happening in Serbia

This column appeared in the June 1999 issue of The American Journalism Review.

Within a week of the first NATO bomb dropping on Serbia, the conflict in Kosovo had been dubbed the first Internet war. While that overstates the case, it’s not far from the truth.

Night after night the network news has offered a narrow prism of views along with those ubiquitous aerial photos of NATO’s bombing campaign. The Internet, conversely, has provided an alternative channel that offered deeper coverage, more interactivity and, most significantly, greater diversity of voices and viewpoints.

Internet users have tapped into the war in a number of ways: [Read more…] about Conveying the war in human terms

Couples baby showers come of age

April 4, 1999 by JD Lasica

Food, gifts, guys — and life advice for the new parents

By JD Lasica
BabyCenter managing editor

When our friend Catherine called and offered to host a baby shower, my six-months-pregnant wife knew me well enough to say, “JD will want to be a part of this, too.”

‘Twasn’t always so. Not long ago, baby showers were still deemed off-limits to men. The custom, after all, grew out of an era when midwives delivered most babies and women formed close bonds during the birthing process. Men at traditional baby showers? No, thank you, not with the field reports we got from the front lines suggesting rituals and practices that were, frankly, a little scary.

But times are changing — and so are baby showers. [Read more…] about Couples baby showers come of age

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