2025 Fall

MEDIAST 104E 001 - LEC 001

History and Development of Online News

Rich Jaroslovsky

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025

02:00 pm - 04:59 pm

Wheeler 108

Class #:24867

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 48

Enrolled: 0

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 48

Waitlist Max: 10

Open Reserved Seats:

3 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission

45 reserved for Media Studies Majors

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.

This course will examine the history of online news beginning with the earliest experiments with news delivered via dedicated terminals. From there, we’ll look at the impact of the personal computer’s growth and the rise of proprietary dial-up online services. The open, Wild West nature of the early Web brought new possibilities but also the beginning of debates about credibility, free vs. paid content and competitive challenges that continue to this day. We’ll focus on key figures in technology and journalism who shaped the new medium, and trace how its growth undermined traditional economic models even as it enabled the rise of new ones, continuing through today’s world of mobile apps, aggregators and social media.

Class Notes

- Reserved seats will be released during Phase 2 of enrollment.
- Enrollment Permission seats will be released closer to the start of class instruction.
- Freshmen are not permitted to enroll in this course.

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