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Understanding the impact of new media on journalism

了解新媒体对新闻事业的影响

1.

Journalism is undergoing a fundamental transformation, perhaps the most fundamental since

the rise of the penny press of the mid-19th century. In the twilight of the 20th century and the

dawn of the 21st, there is emerging a new form of journalism whose distinguishing qualities

include ubiquitous news, global information access, instantaneous reporting, interactivity,

multimedia content, and extreme content customization. In many ways this represents a

potentially better form of journalism because it can reengage an increasingly distrusting and

alienated audience. At the same time, it presents many threats to the most cherished values

and standards of journalism. Authenticity of content, source verification, accuracy, and truth

are all suspect in a medium where anyone with a computer and a modem can become a

global publisher.

新闻正在发生根本性的转变，也许最根本的自19世纪中期的便士报的兴起。在20世纪末,21世纪初,出现了一种新兴的新闻报道形式.它的显著特点包括：无处不在的新闻消息，全球信息的获得，实时报道，互动性，多媒体的内容和专门的内容定制。在许多方面，这是一个潜在的更好的形式，因为它可以重新将越来越不信任和疏远观众接入到新闻中。同时，它对新闻界最珍视的价值观和标准提出了许多威胁。只要拥有电脑和调制解调器，任何人都可成为全球化的新闻发布者。这样的传媒，其内容的权威性，信息来源的可鉴定性、准确性以及真实性均会受到质疑。

2.

Although the easy answer is to point to the Internet, the reasons for the transformation of

journalism are neither simple nor one-dimensional. Rather, a set of economic, regulatory, and

cultural forces, driven by technological change, are converging to bring about a massive shift

in the nature of journalism at the millennium.

虽然简单的答案是指向互联网，新闻业转型的原因既不是简单的，也不是一维的。相反，在当代，一组被技术变革所推动的经济，监管和文化力量，正在汇聚，导致大量的接入到新闻中。

3.

The growth of a global economic system, made up of regional economies, all interrelated

(witness the volatility in the word's financial markets in August 1998, when drops in Asian

and Russian markets triggered drops in European and U.S. markets) and increasingly

controlled by multinational corporate behemoths, has rewritten the financial basis for

journalism and the media in general. Deregulation, as outlined in the U.S. 所有区域经济相互联系（目睹了１９９８年世界金融市场的动荡，当时亚洲和俄罗斯市场的下滑引发了欧洲和美国市场也有下滑），不断由跨国企业巨头控制，他们一起构成的全球经济体系不断发展，重写了新闻业和媒体的金融基础。

4.

Telecommunications Act of 1996 and played out in like fashion in many other parts of the

world (where privatization of telecommunications has been a driving force), has spawned

increasingly powerful competitive forces in journalism and communications. The end of the

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Cold War has unleashed a variety of pent-up cultural and political forces