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Major players in push technology

This sidebar to When push comes to news appeared in the May 1997 issue of The American Journalism Review. Internet news services can custom-tailor your news and deliver it fast. They work well as supplements to your news diet, but they can’t yet compete with print media’s portability or with television news’ visual impact. Following are the major players in the push news landscape. All of the services or programs are free to the user, though on rare occasion some material — like the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition — requires a separate subscription. All will do Windows on your PC, with Mac versions available or in development for most. Better hurry with that download, though. Some of these start-ups

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Push: The next wave of Net news?

Push technology, the Internet’s trend du jour, allows online news sites to narrowcast personalized news directly to readers The following article appeared in the May 1997 issue of The American Journalism Review. For news consumers and publishers alike, 1997 may well mark a seismic shift in the way content is delivered on the Internet. The phenomenon goes by many names: Push technology. Webcasting. Netcasting. Personal broadcast applications. Channel technology. Internet news broadcasting. All refer to a technological revolution that is redefining the relationship between online news operations and their readers. And even if you’re not a cyberspace cowboy, push news should interest you because it has the potential to reshape the fundamentals of journalism in much the same way that

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Net gain

It’s time for mainstream media to trade in their gatekeeper role for a reader-empowered brand of Interactive Journalism This in-depth look at online journalism appeared as the cover story of the November 1996 issue of The American Journalism Review. It was considered groundbreaking for its day. Introduction Agreat many of the Internet’s 20-million-plus users consider Old Media’s practice of top-down, father-knows-best journalism to be clunky, obsolete and irrelevant to their lives. And, in an age when anyone with a computer and modem can be a virtual reporter, they’re right. So does this mean that professional journalists — the middlemen in the news equation — are expendable in a wired world? Hardly. Many Net users want reporters, editors and news directors

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James Fallows: The Net will transform — not displace — mainstream media

The noted media critic and former editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report discusses the future of online journalism Harvard-educated, a Rhodes Scholar, a former chief White House speech writer (for Jimmy Carter), former Washington editor of The Atlantic Monthly and former editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report, James Fallows is one of the nation’s foremost press critics, on the strength of his 1996 book, “Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy.” He responded to questions on the state of the online media in an e-mail interview on May 7, 1996. In an “On the Line” online interview earlier this year you said one advantage of the Internet is that it gives people “the ability to find

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