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Journalism Next
A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing
Third Edition
A roadmap for journalists to reference time after time
368 pages | CQ Press
The Third Edition of Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing is the most informed, practical, and succinct guide to digital technology for journalists. Author Mark Briggs’ forward-thinking techniques and accessible style prepares today’s journalists for tomorrow’s media landscape transformations. Readers will learn how to effectively blog, crowdsource, use mobile technology, mine databases, and expertly capture audio and video to report with immediacy, cultivate community, and convey compelling stories. Briggs helps readers quickly improve their digital literacy by presenting the basics and building on them to progress towards more specialized skills within multimedia. Readers will become equipped to better manage online communities and build an online audience. Journalism Next is a quick yet valuable read that provides a detailed roadmap for journalists to reference time and time again.
Foreword By Jennifer Preston, vice president, journalism, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Preface
UNIT ONE: BASICS
Introduction: Journalism is about people, not technology
1 We are all Web workers now
2 Blogging and microblogging: Publish, distribute and connect
3 Crowd-powered collaboration
4 Going mobile
UNIT TWO: MULTIMEDIA
5 Visual storytelling with photographs
6 Making audio journalism visible
7 Telling stories with video
UNIT THREE: EDITING AND DECISION MAKING
8 Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life
9 Building a digital audience for news
Appendix: Suggested Web resources
About the Author
Index
I have passed this to a colleague who teaches media and mass communication. He is considering it. For business communications, it probably is not ideal. It has been written with practitioners in mind. We use books that are more theoretical in nature. Undoubtedly, this is an excellent book for trainees, however.
Dept of Marketing, Ops & Digital Busin, Manchester Metropolitan University
February 15, 2016
The text is current and relevant for our advanced reporting students in multimedia journalism.
Journalism Printing Dept, Arkansas State University
December 23, 2015
A well-written and interesting book which I recommend as supplemental reading to those students who are interested in finding out more about digital journalism, especially in relation to PR.
Mode Management, Mediadesign Hochschule
August 26, 2015
