Language Arts & Disciplines : Journalism

Journalism Online tackles the pressing question of how to apply fundamental journalism skills to the online medium. It provides an essential guide to the Internet as a research and publishing tool. In particular, it examines how to forge key journalism skills with the distinctive qualities of the World Wide Web to provide compelling web content.Trainee and practicing online journalists will learn:- core journalism skills of identifying, collecting, selecting and presenting news and information;- multimedia skills such as audio recording and editing;- online research methods including use of search tools, newsgroups and listservs;- story construction and writing for the Web;- an introduction to HTML;- web site design for the effective use of content.Journalism Online takes the best of the 'new' and 'old' media to provide an essential primer for this emerging discipline. Leading web designers such as Jakob Nielsen rub shoulders with established journalists like Harold Evans in the search for clear guidance in this rapidly developing field. It also provides a useful insight for non-news organisations into how to prepare and present effective web content and avoid the deepest pitfall of the online world - being ignored.Supplementary resources can be found on the book's supporting web site www.journalismonline.co.uk, which features additional exercises, useful links and reviews. more...

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In blistering prose, Eric Boehlert reveals how, time after time, the press chose a soft approach to covering the government, and as a result reported and analyzed crucial events incompletely and even inaccurately. From WMDs to Valerie Plame to the NSA's domestic spying, mainstream fixtures such as The New York Times, CBS, CNN, and Time magazine too often ignored the administration's missteps and misleading words, and did not call out the public officials who betrayed the country's trust. Throughout both presidential campaigns and the entire Iraq war to date, the media acted as a virtual mouthpiece for the White House, giving watered-down coverage of major policy decisions, wartime abuses of power, and egregious mistakes -- and sometimes these events never made it into the news at all. Finally, in Lapdogs, the press is being held accountable by one of its own. more...

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Examines the job of the magazine editor in both its journalistic and managerial aspects. An introduction for aspiring or newly appointed editors and a source of information for those with more experience. more...

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The Magazines Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to the magazine industry. Tracing the development of magazine publishing, Jenny McKay explores the business of magazines and the role of the magazine journalist. more...

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Through analysis of several media spectacles - including the O.J. Simpson, Elvis, the X-Files and the Clinton sex scandals - Kellner draws insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies. more...

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