Kevin G. Barnhurst is associate professor of communication at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His book The Form of News, A History (New York: The Guilford Press) with John Nerone, won the Covert Award for media history in 2001, and his Seeing the Newspaper (New York: St. Martin’s Press), won a Mellett Citation for media criticism and was named a best book of 1994 by In These Times magazine. His Shorenstein Center project extends research on the redefinition of American journalism, for which he won the APSA/ICA Political Communication best article award with Diana Mutz in 1999. He held previous fellowships at the Great Cities Institute in Chicago (2000–01) and Columbia University in New York (1991–92) and has been a visiting professor in Spain (1996–97) and a Fulbright professor in Peru (1989). He received his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. While at the Shorenstein Center, Barnhurst will examine how the Internet is redefining news about politics and government in America.
The Form of Reports on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites
January 1, 2002
A paper by Kevin G. Barnhurst, fall 2001 fellow, argues that U.S. newspapers that publish electronic editions on the Internet do not appear to reinvent themselves online. Instead the Web versions reproduce the substance of their print editions in a way that relates similarly to readers. Reaching stories on line can be a process involving
