ABSTRACT
In Stage 1, leading news media began putting their analog content online. Drawing upon cases not only from the U.S. but also from Europe and Asia, this chapter examines the initial, tentative steps that some news media organizations undertook to enter the online arena. Usage, investment, and revenue data are examined. Early online news efforts include the Columbus (Ohio, US) Dispatch, which, on 1 July 1980, published the first “online” newspaper, and the Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Dia, which, in 1987, produced the state-owned Embratel network and transitioned to the Internet in the 1990s. Hundreds of U.S. and other newspapers soon followed.
