online journalism

online journalism is definitely undergoing a change. well, apart from being more tabloidish, the writing style has definitely changed. I've grown a liking to a style with paras with no more than 1 or 2 sentences, separated out by line-breaks. indeed i learnt it from from few bloggers here. To say the least, this style taxes ur attention span at a bare minimum, with the reader getting rewards every now n then out of finishing up a paragraph. eg., see the rediff articles, or the TOI ones. I guess NYT is still growing up. hoho.

and surprisingly, it appears that the information content is just the same as it used to be in those long-paragraphed paper-newspaper articles. either they've managed to split stuff down into precise coherent sections, or well the information presentation has been improved to be just more compact.