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Online journalism : the essential guide / Steve Hill, Paul Lashmar.

By: Hill, Steve (Lecturer in journalism) [author.].
Contributor(s): Lashmar, Paul [author.].
Los Angeles, California, USA : SAGE Publications Inc., ©2014Description: xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text. ISBN: 9781446207345 (hbk.); 144620734X (hbk.); 9781446207352 (pbk.); 1446207358 (pbk.).Subject(s): Online journalism | Media StudiesDDC classification: 070.4 H55
Contents:
What are the Essential Skills? -- Understanding Your Users -- Writing for the Web -- Telling the Story with Images -- Using Audio and Podcasts -- Working with Video -- Doing Investigative Reporting -- Social Media and Building Online Communities -- Blogging and Participatory Journalism -- Freelancing and Entrepreneurial Journalism -- Outputting for Web, Smartphone, and Tablet -- Ethics and Good Practice -- Law and Regulation -- How the Internet Transformed Journalism.
Summary: Online and social media have become indispensable tools for journalists, but you still have to know how to find and tell a great story. To be a journalist today, you must have not only the practical skills to work with new technologies, but also the understanding of how and why journalism has changed. Combining theory and practice, Online Journalism will take you through the classic skills of investigating, writing and reporting as you master the new environments of mobile, on-demand, social, participatory and entrepreneurial journalism. You will also develop must-have skills in app development for smartphones and tablets, as well as techniques in podcast, blog and news website production. Summary: An essential guide to both the theory and practice of online journalism. Accompanied by an author-hosted companion website and with QR codes throughout linking to multimedia resources, this is a much needed core textbook for all undergraduate journalism students.
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Includes QR codes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283) and index.

What are the Essential Skills? -- Understanding Your Users -- Writing for the Web -- Telling the Story with Images -- Using Audio and Podcasts -- Working with Video -- Doing Investigative Reporting -- Social Media and Building Online Communities -- Blogging and Participatory Journalism -- Freelancing and Entrepreneurial Journalism -- Outputting for Web, Smartphone, and Tablet -- Ethics and Good Practice -- Law and Regulation -- How the Internet Transformed Journalism.

Online and social media have become indispensable tools for journalists, but you still have to know how to find and tell a great story. To be a journalist today, you must have not only the practical skills to work with new technologies, but also the understanding of how and why journalism has changed. Combining theory and practice, Online Journalism will take you through the classic skills of investigating, writing and reporting as you master the new environments of mobile, on-demand, social, participatory and entrepreneurial journalism. You will also develop must-have skills in app development for smartphones and tablets, as well as techniques in podcast, blog and news website production.

An essential guide to both the theory and practice of online journalism. Accompanied by an author-hosted companion website and with QR codes throughout linking to multimedia resources, this is a much needed core textbook for all undergraduate journalism students.

College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Communication

In English.

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