The Internet Lets Everyone Become a Journalist

This article originally by John Steele Gordon can be found here.

“An age of chaos... [a] heaving, tumbling age.”

-James Gordon Bennett

Many print and television news sources had to readapt and find new means, just like James Gordon Bennett, who was the first to take advantage of new technology. With:

$500 of Capital
An Office in a dank cellar
Himself as an employee

Bennett was able to create The Herald in 1835, which had the largest circulation of any newspaper in the world by 1872.

Bennett used technology and aimed the newspaper to the widest possible audience and provided what he thought the public wanted to know, not necessarily the information he thought the public ought to know.

The new journalism -- THE INTERNET -- anyone could recreate what James Gordon Bennett did more than 165 years ago.

The demand to have great news and information has been the greatest challenge. However, with more and more journalists in the field, the public can now get a more personalized news experience.

News have changed how the general population consumes information with the incorporation of the Internet.

A vision of news consumption less than a generation ago consisted of:

Morning and Afternoon Newspapers (i.e. The Washington Post instead of blogs)
Network Evening News Programs (i.e. CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite instead of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart).