Will Mari is Assistant Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, USA. He is a media historian and interested in analog-to-digital transitions in journalism and the history of media technology, more broadly. He received his PhD from the University of Washington, USA, and his MPhil from Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.

• 1 Introduction: newsrooms and the disruption of the internet 2 Early development of news sites in the UK and the US in the 1990s 3 The New Century Network and other large-scale industry responses to the internet’s arrival 4 The internet and newsgathering in the late 1990s and early 2000s 5 The internet and newsgathering in the mid-to-late 2000s 6 Conclusion: the internet disrupted journalism … but what next?

Will Mari is Assistant Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, USA. He is a media historian and interested in analog-to-digital transitions in journalism and the history of media technology, more broadly. He received his PhD from the University of Washington, USA, and his MPhil from Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.

• 1 Introduction: newsrooms and the disruption of the internet 2 Early development of news sites in the UK and the US in the 1990s 3 The New Century Network and other large-scale industry responses to the internet’s arrival 4 The internet and newsgathering in the late 1990s and early 2000s 5 The internet and newsgathering in the mid-to-late 2000s 6 Conclusion: the internet disrupted journalism … but what next?