Does the advent of the Internet society spell the end of the news media as we know it? Will a new breed of reporters, represented by anonymous authors in online chat rooms, oust professional journalists from the public arena?
Panelists at the Asia-Pacific Journalists Meeting 2001, held Wednesday in Tokyo, said information technology has had a profound effect on the modus operandi of conventional news organizations.
But they agreed that the Internet will not replace newspapers and magazines in the foreseeable future, just as radio and TV did not erase print media from the map.