News affects the way we make sense of the world. The constant flow of words and images that we receive from the media plays a crucial part in our daily lives, and anyone with a computer or television now has access to more information than ever before. What factors shape the delivery and content of news? Today, technology plays an increasingly important role in news gathering and distribution. How are dramatic advances in communications technology changing the ways in which news stories are gathered and consumed? What will be the future of news? Indeed, does news as we understand it have a future?