Online Newspaper - Introduction

Introduction

In the developing world online publishers are drawing large amounts of traffic and reaping the rewards of online publishing. The oldest example of an online newspaper or in this case a weekly summary over the weekend's news is the Weekend City Press Review, set up in 1991 this was a pioneer in the online market. This subscription based service continues to run today. But they are based on hard copy reports and papers. See 'Hybrid newspapers' section of this page. Truly 'Online Only' newspapers and magazines started much later, with the exception of "News Report", an online newspaper created by Bruce Parrello in 1974 on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois. In Brazil, there is an online newspaper from 1987, Jornaldodia (http://www.jornaldodia.com.br), still live today (August 2012). Jornaldodia runs on Cirandão network (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirand%C3%A3o) on state owned Embratel. In the 90s moved to internet.

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