Abstract

The consolidation of cyberjournalism as a new form of journalistic production in recent years brought about the need to evaluate the quality of newspapers and magazines produced for the Web. Using the same concepts and analytic tools developed for the traditional press in the evaluation of cyberjournalism leads to the undervaluation of specific characteristics of journalistic products designed for the new medium. On the other hand, analytic tools used for website evaluation are generally too generic and ill adapted for the specificities of cyberjournalism. In this article we explore some of the difficulties involved in quality assessment of online journalism. The difficulties in analyzing memory in cyberjournalism is used to indicate some of the challenges posed for the webnewspaper analyst.