ABSTRACT
Today’s newsroom research centers feature gleaming PCs, rich-colored large-screen monitors, lightning quick modems, speedy CDROM readers, fast laser printers, and skilled, online-sawy researchers. This model has replaced the old morgue, which is passing rapidly from newsrooms around the world. These newsroom facilities are experiencing a transitional period, yet it may be hard to find a glue pot, clipping or photo files, or very many books in a truly modern news organization’s research and reference center these days. Everything is going digital (Paul, 1993; Semonche, 1993). In fact, there is even debate on what to name these areas that are so important to journalism. More and more, reporters are becoming researcherlike in their work. Conversely, more and more researchers are becoming more reporterlike (Garrison, 1995; Leslie, 1994).
