Online News: Journalism and the Internet

摘要: 'If the promises of online news are to be fulfilled, books like this deserve widest possible readership' - Paul Bradshaw, University Central England, UK. In exciting and timely book Stuart Allan provides a wide-ranging analysis news. He offers important insights into key debates concerning ways in which journalism is evolving on internet, devoting particular attention factors influencing its development. Using diverse range examples, he shows how forms, practices epistemologies gradually becoming conventionalized, assesses implications for journalism's future.The rise examined with regard reporting series major events. The topics include coverage Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton-Lewinsky affair, September 11 attacks, election campaigns, war Iraq. emergence blogging traced an eye impact as profession. participatory sites such Indymedia, OhmyNews, Wikinews explored, citizen journalist South Asian tsunami, London bombings Hurricane Katrina. each instance, uses new technologies from digital cameras mobile telephones beyond shown shape journalistic innovation, often surprising ways. This essential reading students, researchers journalists.