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It was found that amongst traditional journalists use was light. Poor access to the Internet \u2013 and good access to other information resources \u2013 were largely the reasons for this. Of the journalists it was mainly the older and more senior journalists and the New Media journalists who used the Internet. Librarians were also significant users. Searching the World Wide Web was the principal Internet activity and use was generally conservative in character. Newspapers and official sites were favoured, and searches were mainly of a fact\u2010checking nature. Email was used on a very limited scale and was not regarded as a serious journalistic tool. Non\u2010users were partly put off by the Internet\u2018s potential for overloading them with information and its reputation for producing information of suspect quality. Users generally dismissed these concerns, dealing with potential overload and quality problems largely by using authoritative sites and exploiting the lower quality data where it was needed. Where the Internet has been used it has not been at the expense of other information sources or communication channels, but online hosts seem to be at most risk in the future.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1108\/eum0000000007004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,5,12]],"date-time":"2004-05-12T08:32:11Z","timestamp":1084350731000},"page":"98-114","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["The impact of the Internet on information seeking in the Media1"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"52","author":[{"given":"David","family":"Nicholas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Williams","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Cole","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Helen","family":"Martin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"volume-title":"far from being in the vanguard of the Internet revolution, were nothing more than followers - (partly) held up by editor","author":"Key","key":"p_7"},{"volume-title":"The Media and the Internet","year":"1998","author":"Nicholas D.","key":"p_16"},{"volume-title":"Online searching: its impact on information users","year":"1987","author":"Nicholas D.","key":"p_17"},{"volume-title":"The Web in the newsroom","year":"1997","author":"Garrison B.","key":"p_18"},{"volume-title":"The Media in cyberspace IV: a national survey","year":"1998","author":"Middleberg D.","key":"p_19"},{"volume-title":"Computer assisted journalism: the Four Rs of CAJ","year":"1996","author":"Paul N.","key":"p_20"},{"issue":"4","key":"p_21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"343","DOI":"10.3233\/EFI-1997-15407","volume":"15","author":"Nicholas D","year":"1997","journal-title":"Education for Information"},{"volume-title":"Evaluation of online catalogues: an assessment of methods","year":"1990","author":"Hancock-Beaulieu M.","key":"p_22"},{"key":"p_23","volume-title":"Computer assisted research: a guide to tapping online information","author":"Paul N.","year":"1997","edition":"3"},{"volume-title":"A decade of online newspapers - lessons and trends. 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