Excellence in Online Journalism : Exploring Current Practices in an Evolving Environment
ISBN: 9781412970099 | 1412970091
Format: PaperbackPublisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 9/24/2010
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Like the technologies that support it, the craft of online journalism is evolving quickly. This timely book helps students develop standards of excellence, through interviews with more than 30 writers, editors and producers, and dozens of examples of strong work. The author provides a framework of concepts to show how the field is evolving and challenged by competition, staffing limitations, and other pressures. Discussion is organized around four key elements: speed and accuracy with depth in breaking news; comprehensiveness in multimedia cont... MORE
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Excellence Online: A Work in Progress | |
| Excellence in Old and New Media | |
| Excellence Online: Four Developing Standards | |
| An Ethical Lens for Looking at Excellence | |
| A Practice: The Social Context | |
| Telos: The Big-Picture Goal | |
| Internal Goods: Distinctive Achievements of the ... MORE | |
| Standards of Excellence: Setting the Bar for the Field | |
| Virtues: The Qualities of Good Character | |
| External Goods and Institutions: Danger Lurking | |
| Speed and Accuracy With Depth in Breaking News | |
| The Battle to Be Fast and Right: An Old Challenge With New Pressures | |
| Insights from Online Journalists: Giving Voice to a Standard | |
| Breaking News Through an Ethical Lens | |
| Online Excellence in Development: The Hudson River Jet Landing | |
| Challenges to Maintaining and Enhancing Excellence | |
| Overcoming the Challenges: Virtues in Action | |
| On-the-Job Profile: Mark Stevenson Facing the Daily Challenges | |
| Comprehensiveness in Content | |
| Insights From Online Journalists: What Comprehensiveness Means | |
| Challenges to Comprehensiveness | |
| Overcoming the Challenges: Virtues in Action | |
| On-the-Job Profile: Jenni Pinkley Facing the Daily Challenges | |
| Open-endedness in Story Development | |
| Excellence in Story Development Online | |
| The Dynamic of Excellence | |
| Challenges to Excellence in Story Development: External Goods Lurking | |
| Attitude Check: Virtues for 21st-Century Journalists | |
| On-the-Job Profile: Robert Quigley Facing the Daily Challenges | |
| The Centrality of Conversation | |
| A Longtime Value Takes Center Stage | |
| Standards of Excellence in Online Conversation | |
| The Dynamic of Excellence in Conversation | |
| Now for the Challenges: Stumbling Blocks in the "Conversational Commons" | |
| Virtue and Conversation | |
| On-the-Job Profile: Eric Zorn Facing the Daily Challenges | |
| Beyond the Big Guys: Independent and Community Journalism Online | |
| Perspectives from Three Smaller Organizations | |
| Citizen Journalism, Social Media, and Journalism as a Practice | |
| The Future of Excellence in Online Journalism: Living in the World of Both-And | |
| The World of Both-And | |
| What It Takes to Work in the World of Both-And | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
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