READ the story "Inbox Journalism" at the American Journalism Review website:

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4005

THEN answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper:

1. What are some of the benefits for using e-mail to conduct interviews (minimum of 5)? Be sure to attribute the source who cited each benefit you note.

2. What are some of the drawbacks for using e-mail to conduct interviews (minimum of 5)? Be sure to attribute the source who cited each drawback you note.

3. What are some of the rules various publications use for noting when information was obtained via an e-mail instead of a face-to-face interview? Be sure to attribute the publication for each rule (or set of rules).

4. Summarize the story's coverage of Instant Messages in journalism in one paragraph.

5.  Summarize the story's final take on electronic communication in general.