Working in the Digital Age

What are online newspapers? They are electronic newspapers that are self-contained, reusable, and refresh-able version of atraditional newspaper that acquires and holds information electronically.Multimedia is also around the same definition. With multimedia meaning that many different media’s are being used such as audio, video, graphics, drawings or any other media.

This digital photographic technology affected photojournalism and photojournalist in some significant ways. With that being that it gave photojournalists another way to get their works out for people to see. Giving that more people would access it through online rather than hard copy because it was free. Also another effect that was major was that with multimedia this allowed for videos to be shown as a part of the photojournalist’s stories. With hard copy newspapers that option was not available.

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What I discovered when I compared and contrasted this digital photographic technology with one of the pre-digital technologies from module 4 was first that online newspapers (multimedia) and the term rotogravure was that it both involves the use of press. Rotogravure is a printing process in which letters and pictures are transferred from coppercylinder to a web of paper. But clearly the difference between the two is that online newspapers are web based, while rotogravure is more for hard copy.

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To add to the two comparisons, another way to compare them would be in the sense of them being in the newspaper; they worked hand in hand. Like Nordell said, in the 1890s how rotogravure came along so it was easyto publish photographs in newspapers. As for the importance, the growth of the internet simply helped. “With the explosion of the internet and the ability totake digital photos and transmit them digitally was huge.” Interesting enough rotogravure was the most looked at page in the newspaper. “There would be a special editionin the Sunday with photographs; it was the most looked at page in the newspaper. As far as the benefits, Nordell went to say “for companies thatadvertised in the newspapers in those pages where there were photographs, thoseads sold much more; so there was a huge impact on photojournalism."