Effects of the Electronic Library on News Reporting Protocols
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I Journaluts UY d a u bue infornution in two distinctive f o r m . The fin1 is the electronic library of stories produced by the suff of the ncwsppcr on their VDTs. The newsppcr content is uswlly e n h a d by news library suf f with the addition ofsubjecl headings and retrieval up. and stored electroniully for retrieval by rcponcrs and ed i ton at their own terminals or at lcrminah in the newsroom. This ckctronic library replacer the old 'morgue" of ppcr clippinp from u c h day's edition of the newspaper (ue Footnote 3). The second form of data bu infornution used by journalists c o m e from commercial d a u bur. p r o d d and vended by infornution proriden outside the newsroom itself. Most frequently. journalists h v c aeass to theu commercial data bases through their news library sun in a few nemroom. aomc journalists n u y k trained to conduet searches themselves. Users pay leer. ranging from 535 to more lhan f200 pcr hour for a c m s to t h c u electronic files. which n u y conuin ciutions for published nutcrul. lhe compktc text of an ic la . demographic infornution. lepl u u s . and a wide variety of other types of infornution. See. for c u m p k . F d r i c F. Endres. 'Daily N e v l p p c r Utilization of Computer Data B.ler.' Nrwspaper Rrsrarrh Journal. Fall 1985. pp. 29-35; John Kcrr and Walter E. Niebauer Jr.. 'Urn of Full Text, Daubase Retrieval Systems by Editorial P a p Writen." Nrwspaper Rrwarrh Journal. Spring 1987. pp. 21-32. 2 Kathken A. Hanxn. Jean Ward and Dou8hs M. McLeod. 'Role of the N e m p p c r Library in the Production of News." Jwrnaliam Qwrtrrly, b4:714-?20 (Winter 1987).