Making Online News- Volume 2

The world of news is fast changing. Increased competition, 24/7 news delivery, multi-media production, migrating advertising, fragmenting audiences and the rise of citizen journalism and social media all speak to the changing nature of news and news production in a digital age. We need to better understand these processes from the inside out as well as the outside in. We need to examine the shift to producing news online and how this has transformed the nature of news production, reconfigured journalist practices and reshaped news values and professional identities. Making Online News expertly contributes new knowledge and improved understanding of the on-going revolution in news manufacture from the inside out. An invaluable collection. (Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communication, Cardiff University) City by city and country by country, the news media are transforming themselves. Whether gasping to survive economic challenges or celebrating new possibilities, the denizens of todays newsrooms live in a world that would have seemed alien fifty years ago. In a series of complementary ethnographies, this second volume of Making Online News paints a valuable portrait of international continuity and change. It is a valuable addition to the journalism curriculum. (Gaye Tuchman, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut) The world of news is fast changing. Increased competition, 24/7 news delivery, multi-media production, migrating advertising, fragmenting audiences and the rise of citizen journalism and social media all speak to the changing nature of news and news production in a digital age. We need to better understand these processes from the inside out as well as the outside in. We need to examine the shift to producing news online and how this has transformed the nature of news production, reconfigured journalist practices and reshaped news values and professional identities. Making Online News expertly contributes new knowledge and improved understanding of the on-going revolution in news manufacture from the inside out. An invaluable collection. (Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communication, Cardiff University) City by city and country by country, the news media are transforming themselves. Whether gasping to survive economic challenges or celebrating new possibilities, the denizens of todays newsrooms live in a world that would have seemed alien fifty years ago. In a series of complementary ethnographies, this second volume of Making Online News paints a valuable portrait of international continuity and change. It is a valuable addition to the journalism curriculum. (Gaye Tuchman, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut)

David Domingo is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Catalonia). He was visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa in 2007-8. His research focuses on the adoption of innovations in online newsrooms. His weblog is dutopia.net. Chris Paterson is a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds Institute of Communications Research (UK). His research concerns journalism and international communications. His book on international television news agencies was also published by Peter Lang in 2011.

Contents: Chris Paterson/David Domingo: Preface: A Pedagogy of Online News Sociology: Teaching with Making Online News David Domingo: Introduction: The Centrality of Online Journalism Today (and Tomorrow) Steve Paulussen/Davy Geens/Kristel Vandenbrande: Fostering a Culture of Collaboration: Organizational Challenges of Newsroom Innovation Anja Bechmann: Closer Apart? The Networks of Cross-Media News Production Sue Robinson: Beaming up Traditional Journalists: The Transition of an American Newspaper into Cyberspace Nikki Usher: Redefining Public Radio: Marketplace in the Digital Age Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara: The Internet in the Print Newsroom: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures in Zimbabwe Jannie Mller Hartley: Routinizing Breaking News: Categories and Hierarchies In Danish Online Newsrooms Steen Steensen: Making Online Features: How the Discursive Practice of an Online Newsroom Affects Genre Development Brooke Van Dam: The Process of Covering the 2008 US Presidential Election at Salon.com and LATimes.com Andy Williams/Karin Wahl-Jorgensen/Claire Wardle: Studying User-Generated Content at the BBC: A Multi-Site Ethnography Chris Paterson: Convergence in the News Wholesalers: Trends in International News Agencies Amira Firdaus: A News Portal without a News Team: Journalistic and Marketing Logics at the Malaysian National News Agency C.W. Anderson: Blowing up the Newsroom: Ethnography in the Age of Distributed Journalism Pablo J. Boczkowski: Epilogue: Future Avenues for Research on Online News Production.