THE EVOLUTION OF NEWS AND THE INTERNET :
“Importantly, the study shows that many promising forms of news creation and distribution are being
experimented with, some of which are empowered by increasing technological sophistication and resulting
decentralised forms of content creation and broad-based participation. The rise of the Internet and other
technologies radically changes how news is produced and diffused. It enables the entry of new intermediaries that create and distribute news, including online news aggregators, online news publishers,
mobile news actors, citizen journalism and many more. Information providers with very different
trajectories (TV, newspapers and Internet companies) are now competing head-on in a global online news
environment. More recently newspaper websites have seen strong growth in their own pages, with large
newspapers reporting several million unique visitors to their pages per month, increasingly including
readers from abroad, a radical shift from national patterns of established newspapers.”
URL : http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/24/45559596.pdf