The following are examples of publication categories on the electronic media which, in addition of the textual content, utilize varying degrees of visual means to communicate with the reader/viewer:
Of these, TV is not further considered.
Publishing news-like information on the electronic media does not necessarily require lots of changes compared to publishing on the more traditional medium---paper. However, transferring paper publications to be viewed on e.g. computer screen may not be sense unless the differences of the media are taken into account.
At best, publishing for the electronic media may make heavy use of the potential of the medium. The publication may adapt cleverly to the different hardware and software environments such as varying screen sizes, fonts, colours, available fast and slow storage space and processing speed. Also, deriving content run-time from networks and databases is possible and advisable. The structure of the publication may be much more network-like--- hypermedic---with much more references and possible reading paths than with paper publications. The most important benefits of electronic publishing are, however, the possibility to provide fresh contents and to take into account the individual needs of users by compiling a different publication for different users.
A perfect utopia about an electronic newspaper is one where the user describes his/her interest profile and an intelligent agent (or several of them) writes a fresh newspaper based on the personal interests of the reader.
In a more realistic vision, the content is not completely produced run-time, but compiled and laid out of pre-written articles and pre-designed advertisements and other components residing in a database. The articles may have several alternative versions that for instance have different lengths or include different amounts of details and background knowledge or different aspects of the topic. Some of these versions could be explicitly planned beforehand by the editor, others could be compiled from smaller parts.