Online news but in conventional style

Via the Wichita Eagle: The University of Missouri at Columbia is inviting Web news readers to the curtain raiser of EmPRINT (Electronic Media Print), a new technology that gives readers the option to read news from the cyberworld in a newspaper format. News will be dished out for the next 10 Sundays on the university's Web site in the same newspaper layout, sans all pop-ups or incessant scrolling. It will, however provide readers with color, clear font and assured delivery. The paper can be downloaded in a short while and stored on laptops or printed to facilitate easy reading. "This isn't really anything like a Web site. It's more like a book or newsmagazine reading experience, but it's your familiar local newspaper," said Pam Johnson, founding director of Missouri's recently launched Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the university.