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Online Journalism and New Media
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Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News PackagesFlash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages by Mindy McAdams
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It's all about creating multimedia journalism; six case studies from 2003-2004.
Media Work (Digital Media and Society)Media Work (Digital Media and Society) by Mark Deuze
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For anyone who cares about the journalism field and where it's headed; scholarly, well researched, yet (surprise!) eminently readable.
Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (Inside Technology)Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (Inside Technology) by Pablo Boczkowski
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Excellent background if you are researching this topic; Boczkowski is a sociologist, and he studies newsrooms from the inside.
Convergence Journalism: Writing and Reporting across the News MediaConvergence Journalism: Writing and Reporting across the News Media by Janet Kolodzy
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Textbook for undergraduates; less "how to" and more "what" and "why."
Convergent Journalism an Introduction: Writing and Producing Across MediaConvergent Journalism an Introduction: Writing and Producing Across Media
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A practical textbook, still usable but dated.
Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and ProductionSound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production by Jonathan Kern
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This may be the best how-to textbook for journalism and reporting ever written.
SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the WorldSuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World by Charlie Beckett
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Taking an idea first expounded by Jeff Jarvis, British broadcast journalist Charlie Beckett stays on point in 170 pages of well-reasoned argument about exactly how journalism has already changed -- and how today's journalists and journalism educators need to understand that so they can go forward, and not sit inert as their world collapses on their heads.
Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production (Digital Formations)Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production (Digital Formations)
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Read Jane Singer's chapter, "Ethnography of Newsroom Convergence."
We the MediaWe the Media by Dan Gillmor
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All about grassroots journalism and blogs without editors; this was the seminal book (2004) and it's STILL good.
Uses of Blogs (Digital Formations)Uses of Blogs (Digital Formations)
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Excellent extension of blog theory beyond the popular politics blogs and the personal diaries.
Dispatches from Blogistan: A travel guide for the modern bloggerDispatches from Blogistan: A travel guide for the modern blogger by Suzanne Stefanac
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Survey of types of blogs and their varied uses and audiences.
Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the AcademyTaking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy by Barbie Zelizer
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Every journalism professor should read this now.
VANISHING NEWSPAPER: SAVING JOURNALISM IN THE INFORMATION AGEVANISHING NEWSPAPER: SAVING JOURNALISM IN THE INFORMATION AGE by PHILIP MEYER
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Why newspapers are dying slowly but surely.
Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (Digital Formations)Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (Digital Formations) by Axel Bruns
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Thoughtful analysis of the watchdog function and gatekeeping in the Internet age.
Online Journalism: Principles and Practices of News for the WebOnline Journalism: Principles and Practices of News for the Web by James C. Foust
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An introductory textbook.
Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the NewsTuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News by David T. Z. Mindich
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Journalists and editors should read this.
Digital Journalism: Emerging Media & the Changing Horizons of JournalismDigital Journalism: Emerging Media & the Changing Horizons of Journalism by Kevin Kawamoto
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A fine collection of essays.
Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader (with InfoTrac®) (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism)Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader (with InfoTrac®) (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism) by Erik P. Bucy
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Another very good collection of essays, suitable for undergraduates.
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd EditionDon't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug
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To understand Web usability (or why some Web sites are really confusing and others are not), read this simple, surprisingly brief book. The illustrations are great! I require grad students to read this and apply its lessons to critiques of Web sites.