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Synopsis The explosion of the new ICTs are bringing down, day after day, the barriers of space and time, as these technologies enter into the many aspects of our everyday existence, substantially altering our ways of life. In the field of media and journalism, these new possibilities are changing the methods by which information was processed and enlarging the sphere of its dissemination. Online journalism is a new medium evolving from other traditional news media, and traditional media must change to accommodate the new medium or be replaced by them. It brings in fresh competition to other media, even forcing changes in content. The web technology has strengthened the traditional watchdog functions of journalism by giving reporters efficient ways to probe more deeply for information. Today, growing numbers of journalists use the world wide web as a reporting tool with considerable enthusiam. The computerization of editorial work has had a revolutionary impact on the techniques of journalism, creating new jobs and changing old ones. This book aims to give an overview of the present developments in the cybermedia, the effects on newspapers and the strategies that publishers have developed to cope with the new media environment. It provides an indepth overview of the emerging media technologies, and offers readers the tools to think about the internet from a journalistic perspective.