Online newspaper

An Internet newspaper ( online newspaper ) is a newspaper that is published exclusively on the Internet. Frequently internet newspapers but also in connection to a print newspaper, but usually have an independent editorial board. Remains unchanged for the Internet newspaper layout and content of a print newspaper, one speaks of an electronic newspaper.

Unlike print newspapers Internet newspapers are able (eg, video and audio features ) to supplement their products with multimedia contents. There are also various interactive options such as searchability and Kommentierbarkeit, but also techniques for internal and external networking products as well as permanent updatable. Other advantages are that Internet newspapers with regionally limited content as opposed to local newspapers are not subject to limitation of the edition and are available worldwide. At the same time account for the costs incurred in printed media production.

Internet newspapers often generally suffer from a lack of willingness to pay of the recipient and funded by advertising. Exceptions are offers that are funded as additional services to existing subscriptions or articles, the only low competition subject.

History

October 25, 1994 The mirror was the world's first news magazine Spiegel Online as online. A day later, Time Magazine .. The Open Full Story appeared as an independent internet newspaper between 2000 and 2009 and was by its own account the first German, published exclusively on the Internet daily.

Other examples

As an independent claims to Internet newspaper established itself after a year and the number of nearly 1,000 subscribers in 2012, the Internet weekly newspaper context, which now appears as a printed leaflet for the Sonntaz. The resulting as a direct response " einund20 ", however, was set in October 2012