By Mindy McAdams
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Yesterday I finished reading this book: SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World. Consider this a hearty recommendation.
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 [...]
I picked these up at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication:
Blog Wars, by David D. Perlmutter
SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World, by Charlie Beckett
The Politics of News, the News of Politics, 2nd edition, edited by Graber, McQuail and Norris
Hoping to choose one to [...]
Clay Shirky has a new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. It’s about technologies of social networking.
I don’t know if this is in the book; Shirky wrote it for a blog from his publisher, Penguin:
A good deal of user-generated content isn’t actually “content” at all, at least not in the sense [...]
The free downloadable book Journalism 2.0 is now available — also free, in PDF format — in Spanish and Portuguese. To download either one, go to this page at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
It’s a basic beginner text, less than 200 pages. Here are some reviews of the book.
According to a column by Guy Berger, a South African journalist and journalism educator, a Howard University journalism professor has complained that her writing has been published under another author’s name in a very well-regarded textbook.
Howard’s Anju Chaudhary, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, co-authored the Asia section of the third edition [...]
I love books. Are you surprised? Books are the next best thing to online media (hee hee).
Paul Bradshaw has posted a list of the best books ABOUT online journalism. Go on over to his post and check them out. (I added my two cents in the comments there.) This is especially useful if you [...]
The PDF version of “Journalism 2.0″ (132 pages) is available for download (free) at the Knight Citizen News Network (J-Lab) Web site.
Foreword by Phil Meyer
Chapter 1: FTP, MB, RSS, Oh My
Chapter 2: Web 2.0
Chapter 3: Tools and Toys
Chapter 4: New Reporting Methods
Chapter 5: How to Blog
Chapter 6: How to Report News for the Web
Chapter [...]
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