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Participants in The Violence of Information symposium:

A Global Media of Local News
Andras Nyiro

“...Sometimes a major news event proves that a new medium has actually become a mass medium. According to analysts the Mars exploration on 4th July 1997 proved that web-based journalism has generally been accepted as the latest mass medium. In Central Europe it took some more time to realize this fact: some weeks later, on the day of Prince Diana’s tragic death it was iNteRNeTTo (http://internetto.hu), the daily updated webzine that covered the entire story first in Hungarian press. This paper is to give an overview of web-based journalism in Hungary and summarize the two-year experience of editors of iNteRNeTTo in this field. Some of the main issues to be covered: sources of non-English speaking web-journalism, challenges of traditional genres of journalism, hyperlinking in news stories, use of multimedia elements and targeting web-journalism. Besides all the thought-provoking scholarly questions of the new media the most important issue is still practical: is there an audience for non-English speaking local web-journalism in Hungary, far from CNN Online and Wall Street Journal Interactive? In other words what can be the role of Web journalism in the relatively small community of Hungarian websurfers?”

Andras Nyiro was born in 1959. He lives Budapest, Hungary. He is PhD in political science in the University of Grenoble, France, as well as MA in history and sociology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. He is editor-in-chief of iNteRNeTTo, daily-updated webzine of IDG Hungary, editor-in-chief of ABCD, CD-ROM magazine of IDG Hungary, as well as lecturer of political science, Dept. for Sociology, Budapest University of Economics. Andras Nyiro has conducted researches in the area of theory of coalitions, Internet and copyright, and methodology of web-based education.