Web Journalism at Its Best: Leading the Way for News and Information

The Internet was created so people could share and obtain information quickly. Its opened a window of opportunity for any would-be journalist to provide quick up-to-the-minute news, audio and video feeds. At no other time in history has news been so readily available. Internet access has allowed everyone greater opportunities to find out what is happening domestically and internationally.

Today, the Internet is opening doors so anyone, anywhere can share information. This allows any person with Internet access to obtain the same data at the same time. Soldiers, grandparents, and children can quickly share news with each other with just a mouse click. No longer are we limited to television and newspaper schedules for information.

Finding out who said what and when, or what is happening and where is just a matter of booting up the computer. Over the next year, iPhones, iPods, and laptops will increasingly allow us to go where the news is happening, opening the way for web-journalists to post detailed information on their blogs, websites, or forums. Webcams and picture-phones with internet connections allow anyone to provide pictures and live video segments of the news as it happens around us.

Over the next year the Internet, rightfully called the Information Super-Highway, will continue to take the lead in providing information. The Internet will make some jobs obsolete while creating other jobs, as many technologies have done since the start of the industrial revolution.

News companies are becoming more aware of the web-journalist. Many companies look to web-journalists to help keep their sites fresh. Everyday people are creating blogs, joining paying websites, and finding other money-making opportunities online. Within the next year expect more companies to turn to web-journalist. These opportunities were limited to big-name marketing and media companies just a few years ago.

The Internet will continue to grow into next year, providing more news and information, at lower cost than many traditional media companies can manage today. Next year as more people to discover paying sites like Associated Content, Helium and many others, they too will discover how to share important information, quickly and worldwide.

Over the next year, as postal rates increase, expect more people to share information with family via the Internet. Trips to the post office or the mailbox will continue to be replaced by emails and video feeds. Soldiers on the front lines no longer need to wait weeks for news from home. Quicker and better than the postal service, we will increasingly share news and information instantly with family and friends worldwide.

As our wait-time for information and news shrinks, so does our world. The Internet will continue to be for years to come our information source for what is happening around us. Despite its problems and shortcomings, the Internet is changing the way we receive our news, share our information, and stay connected with those we miss the most.