After reading Chapter 8, you should know and understand:

• how presenting news online differs from printing traditional newspaper stories;
• media convergence--how new technology is affecting newsrooms, news gathering and news content;
• how to navigate an online news site;
• what your online storytelling options are (multimedia, interactive and links), and how to use them;
• what blogs are, who creates them and why they are important;
• how to adapt your newswriting style and collaborate to produce more successful Web story packages; and
• what the future may hold for news coverage, and how it will affect you.