ABSTRACT
The more sophisticated uses of the internet involved the creation of customized intranets-internally accessed internet portals. By 1998, the internet was becoming an increasingly common newsroom resource for "day-to-day reporting," as one survey of 45 newspapers in Texas showed. By the end of the 1990s and at the start of the 2000s, newsroom use of the internet grew more sophisticated as the larger public became more advanced with its use. When thinking about how the internet changed journalism in the US, Canada and the UK in the mid-to-late 1990s, it is important to think about how much journalism did not change, at least not yet. As Boczkowski has argued, newspaper culture could be both innovative and not, at the same time, in the form of its still-new web-based content and storytelling.
