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Understanding the impact of new media on journalism 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. 新闻业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。在第二十个世纪的黄昏和黎明的第二十一，有新的新的新闻形式的特性包括无处不在的消息，全球信息访问，即时报告，交互性，多媒体内容，和极端的内容定制。在许多方面，这是一个潜在的更好的形式，因为它可以重新进入新闻越来越不信任和疏远观众。同时，提出了最珍视的价值观和标准的新闻多的威胁。内容的真实性，源验证，精度，和真理都怀疑在介质中用一台电脑和调制解调器，任何人都可以成为全球出版商。虽然最简单的答案是指互联网，新闻媒体的转型的原因既不简单也不一。相反，一系列的经济，管理，和文化的力量，通过技术变革的驱动，会导致在千年在新闻事业的性质发生了巨大变化。’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. 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 Cold War has unleashed a variety of pent-up cultural and political forces that have yet to stabilize. Together, these forces have created an environment of uncertainty for journalism as it enters this new age in which the alignment