'Meet the new news. Same as the old news.'

The Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper points out that most of the finalists for the Online Journalism Awards are "digital siblings to some very established, very old institutions."

Virtually all of the reporters and editors working for those sites are trained professionals with years of experience in real newsrooms. So does it really matter (from a non-business standpoint) that their work appears on a computer screen instead of the printed page?

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The delivery system of choice for millions is now the computer instead of the mailman or the newspaper vendor. But in most cases, the news-gathering process remains the same.

Meet the new news. Same as the old news.

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