Online Journalism - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY
Online Journalism - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY
Online Journalism - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY
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82 <strong>Online</strong> <strong>Journalism</strong><br />
The issue of frequency can be defining for titles on the web, where<br />
large resources could theoretically enable 24-hour minute by minute<br />
updating. In practice, most providers develop a range of update<br />
frequencies for different types of content. Breaking stories, often<br />
merely linked from agencies, are updated as infomation becomes<br />
available. Regular columns are updated to a fixed cycle – daily,<br />
weekly or monthly – and a regular periodic update deals with all the<br />
title’s content, disposing old material to the archive and replacing it<br />
with new along with links and other components. That comprehensive<br />
periodic update is what defines the title as a 24-hour news cycle<br />
provider such as BBC News <strong>Online</strong> or CNN Interactive, a daily such as<br />
newsUnlimited, a weekly, The Economist, or a biweekly or monthly,<br />
Salon.<br />
Push media will keep the reader constantly updated for those who<br />
have direct Internet connections, or periodically to a customised<br />
schedule for consumers with dial up connections and mobile<br />
viewers. A news packaging service such as Pointcast, which in the UK<br />
is operated in association with BT, will let readers select their region<br />
(UK, USA, Europe, etc.) and areas of interest (industry, weather, UK<br />
News, sport, etc.) as well as providers (ITN, The Economist, CNN,<br />
ZDnet, etc.) and will then deliver the customised package via a news<br />
ticker at the base of the screen, a screen saver which delivers headlines<br />
and summaries while the computer is idle, or as a window,<br />
which can be accessed with its last update even when the computer<br />
is disconnected from its network. Since Pointcast is not a web service<br />
per se but rather draws upon other providers’ web content, it functions<br />
perfectly well offline. Content is deleted from the reader’s<br />
computer after several days unless it has been selected to be saved.<br />
Depending on the consumer’s mix of channels push news services<br />
like Pointcast are good at delivering sports results, weather forecasts,<br />
entertainment reviews and schedules, breaking news and market<br />
reports. What push news is not so good at is depth of reporting. That<br />
deficiency can be compensated for by the headline emailing service<br />
provided by titles such as the Wall Street Journal, the Irish Times and<br />
the Business Times of Singapore. These can be used to alert readers to<br />
stories that they should be interested in and which they will then<br />
pursue on the title’s website or print edition.<br />
For a more specialised package of information, services such as<br />
NewsTracker, Newshound and NewsPage Direct search for daily news
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