The World Wide Web has changed the nature of news in many ways, including continual deadlines, highly interactive content and embedded links. Another is that print and broadcast stories are written in a nonlinear structure. But what does that mean, exactly?

a$)$ Nonlinear structure means to write a story from beginning to end, in chronological order.

b$)$ Nonlinear structure means that readers can access content as they choose, so stories might be split into background, multimedia, databases or timelines.

c$)$ Nonlinear structure means that news stories are filed twice a day; once in the morning and a second time in the evening.

d$)$ nonlinear structure means that readers can answer polls, participate in chats with reporters, and ask questions at the end of stories to interact with news organizations.

e$)$ None of the above