1 Journalism in the digital age
In Britain in 1999 there were 10.6 million people on-line, and the numbers are growing. That is about 18 per cent of the population. In the United States it is 27 per cent and rising.
The broadsheet newspapers have been on-line for several years. In 1999, the two largest selling newspapers in the world, the British Sun and Mirror went on-line. The Sun jumped on the bandwagon with a website called CurrantBun.com, whilst the Mirror has a site called ic24.co.uk, which stands for I see 24 hours a day. The Sun believes that the Internet is no longer for nerds and boffins, it is for ordinary people like you and us. Its aim is to prove that the Internet is fun, cheeky and dead easy to use.
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