The main basis for this chapter talks about how the internet’s coverage of news has completely destroyed and replaced the readership for traditional forms of news, such as newspapers and television. Whilst the older generations are continuing to find their news through methods like newspapers and television broadcasts, the younger and middle generations are building up and finding more use in platforms on the internet.

Over the years, the news has moved away from solely presenting news through print, and the internet has proved useful and more efficient in many different ways and at many different times, including the 2008 election day in USA in which 80 million users had viewed online instead of on television. Many companies such as Apple and Amazon have taken advantage of the media’s coverage in presenting news and used it to create products such as the IPod and Amazon Kindle Reader. “These handheld devices have the potential to serve as delivery platforms for original online journalism”.

Although it has been proven that the internet can hold many advantages to broadcasting news, there are also some downsides of anyone being able to produce content anywhere at any time. There was huge questioning as to whether the content produced for “amateur journalists” could compare to that created for professional journalists with many years experience in the field. However, many argue that the variation of experienced and amateur journalists can present more coverage for localised and global news.