Legado e Herança das agências de notícias para o jornalismo na web

Abstract

This article addresses, in a comparison method, the definition of the operational characteristics developed in the historic journey of wire services and how this scene can generate synchronized practices between the ambit of journalism and technology, resulting, for example, onto the web journalism. In a second time, we try to point some tendencies of research about the problem presented in the current theoretical. After having identified these characteristics, we try to indicate the permanence and the balancing of all the activities of agencies with the range of possibilities provided by technological networks of information more flexible, open and participatory, as the Internet. Finally, we give scope for continuities, potentiations and breaks presented on this historical and technological journey, as well as the importance and consequences to the area of the journalism in digital networks.