Online journalism : the essential guide /
Steve Hill, Paul Lashmar.
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014.
- xi, 290 p. : ill. b&w ; 24 cm.
Includes QR codes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Foundations of online journalism -- 2. Understanding your users -- 3. Skills for the multimedia journalist -- 4. Telling the story with images -- 5. Using audio and podcasts -- 6. Working with video -- 7. Doing investigative reporting -- 8. Social media and building online communities -- 9. Blogging and participatory journalism -- 10. Freelancing and entrepreneurial journalism -- 11. Outputting for web, smartphone, and tablet -- 12. Ethics and good practice -- 13. Law and regulation -- 14. 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.