Interesting article written by Francis Pisani, on his blog Transnets, about the evolution of the online press in the United States. Launched five years ago, the Huffington Post is about to overtake the New York Times website in terms of traffic with 13 million visitors in March 2010 alone, as compared to a little more than one million, two and a half years ago. Beyond the symbol, a new way of informing is about to emerge.
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Symbol of citizen journalism, which it was originally in the early
2000s, the South Korean website OhmyNews is launching a call for help. In
an open letter published on its website, the founder of the website, Mr.
Oh Yeon-ho disclosed that the online newspaper lost 30,000 euros this year, due to falling advertising revenue. He asks readers
to join the venture contributing 10.000 wons a month (5,60 €) to enable the journal to survive.
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The titles of several French newspapers and news agencies on the role of
Internet in disseminating information on Swine flu in Mexico as "The web taken on fever swine flu" (AFP), or "Panic and conspiracy are
well train on Internet "(Le Monde), relaunching the debate on the role
of the Web in crisis management. Blog articles, comments on
Facebook or tweets contribute to create panic or participate in
effective dissemination of information?
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