Web of Paradox The World Wide Web allows us to traverse the globe, to convene for many causes, to converse intimately or publicly with many persons. Yet to accomplish these interactions we must sit, solitary, at the computer keyboard, interfacing deeply not with a human other but with Windows 95. --David Thorburn, Web of Paradox   Journalism and Cyberspace Symposium held Nov. 5 and 12, 1998 How has American journalism been affected by digital technologies? What new skills and new knowledge are needed by reporters and editors assigned to cover the "cyber-beat"? How have traditional newspaper formats been altered, challenged, enhanced by the World Wide Web? Do the Web and other aspects of the digital future threaten the very existence of newspapers in the long term? speakers  summaries

editor: david thorburn co-editor: henry jenkins managing editor: mary hopper funded by the markle foundation