What are the main differences between print and online journalism?

The detail and scope of print journalism is incomparable with that of online journalism. Print journalism also offers another big plus; free CD's, aswell as physically having the magazine to hand giving you the freedom to glance through at your own pace. I think the perception of online journalism is perhaps to feel a little skeptical about what you're reading; the internet has the infamous conception that anyone can edit or write anything. So can we really trust what we read online? And subsequently, the internet poses a larger threat; "it is not just music journalism that’s being eaten alive by the internet; newspapers and magazines everywhere are losing readership and advertising revenue." Will online journalism decrease the desire and need for music journalism altogether, whether print or online? 

Ultimately the question is 'is the written word dead?' No, is the answer. BPM looks positively at a gracious future for us music journalists in this technological era; "Music journalism seems particularly different in the Internet era because the entire music industry is changing, too. Not long ago, every garage band dreamed of being on the cover of Rolling Stone. Now, most musicians would gladly trade a magazine cover for another hundred thousand myspace plays." I feel this quote puts in perspective exactly the differing attitudes towards success in the music business these days, many bands would rather have a gazillion plays on myspace these days than a feature in the latest issue of NME. 

On a more positive note, online journalism is always current and constantly being updated, you're not in the situation where you have to wait for the next publication to be released to find out what's going on and you are able to type in your chosen subject and, presto! You're directed immediately to masses and masses of links to make your online browsing experience a little less stressful. Online journalism is also much more accessible to a mass audience, although perhaps a much younger audience. On another upside point, online journalism gives us the access to various amounts of merchandise relating to music such as clothing, accessories and tickets for live music events. Probably, for me, the most note worthy positive outlook to online journalism is the social aspect it derives from; you're able access writers blogs, comment on their thoughts and interact with other music lovers, providing you with a more inapt knowledge of what others have to say. To put in in perspective "Online music journalism has never been stronger." The differences are there, and there are subsequent negatives to the positives that each aspects of journalism brings.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.bpmmagazine.net/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jul/06/music?INTCMP=SRCH