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The Web: Online publishing ascending |
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by UPI
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03 Mar 2005
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A story about the progression of online publishing. |
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CHICAGO, March 2 (UPI) -- An avid sports fan who produces a Web log on the Boston Red Sox is bought out by a major daily newspaper and hired as a sports producer for its Web site. This may sound like some wishful thinking, like some tenuous scenario in one of those fantasy baseball leagues many fans join, but the blog BostonDirtDogs.com, founded by Steve Silva, is now part of The Boston Globe online. Silva is now filing regular reports from the World Series champion Red Sox spring-training site in Florida."Newspapers are doing a lot of experiments online," said Chuck Richard, vice president and lead analyst at Outsell Inc., a research firm in Boston that tracks online advertising and publishing. "They're trying to go beyond the old model of newspapers and become community resources for their readers."Online publishing ventures once were regarded as mere supplements to print publications, but now they are starting to surpass them in influence for many readers, experts told UPI's The Web. The result will be dramatic changes in the publishing industry in the coming years, they said."There is limited space in newspapers for certain features, like book reviews," said Tim Bete, director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton in Ohio. "But online publications have unlimited space. They can host chats with authors and post reviews. These then can be archived for years, and available through a Google search. With a regular newspaper, the information appears and disappears the next day." By Gene Koprowski |
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