Research Catalog

Title

Practicing convergence journalism : an introduction to cross-media storytelling / Janet Kolodzy.

Author

Kolodzy, Janet, 1955-

Publication

New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 202 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

This book teaches journalists how to make the most of digital technology to tell their stories effectively across multiple media platforms.in print, audio, video, and online. This book identifies two types of journalistic stories: the short-form, or immediate, quick turn-around story, once called spot news, and the longer-form or depth news feature that involves a more narrative and interactive arc. This book addresses multi-media and cross-media thinking, organizing, reporting and producing for both types of news stories. Her approach focuses on storytelling principles, not just specific technical practices, providing journalists with the mindset and skills to use and adapt their writing and reporting for the tools of today and tomorrow.

Subjects

• Journalistiek
• Reporters and reporting
• Online journalism
• Broadcast journalism
• Convergence (Telecommunication)
• Digitale technieken
• Cross Media Publishing
• Journalismus
• Multimedia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-189) and index.

Contents

Preface: what is new about today's news audiences -- What's old is new, what's new is old; Text box: what is newsworthy; Text box: Las Vegas Sun -- Eight elements of a news story and the tools to build it; Text box: GlobalPost.com -- Sources and background information: reporting before the reporting; Text box: my five tips for more focused searches; Text box: U.S. courts basics; Text box: Storify.com -- Sources and background information: reporting before the reporting; Text box: Twitter on the beat -- Law & ethics: reporting rules of the road; Text box : trust but verify; Text box : Storify.com -- Building the spot single story; Text box: types of leads; Text box: story types; Text box: breaking news and making connections -- Capturing context and tone: using words, pictures and/or sound; Text box : practicing convergence in sports -- Packaging the story: the daily wrap; Text box : the story is dead, long live the story; Text box : the print or text story; Text box: the radio script; Text box: the video script -- The multimedia story: how to help audiences get what they want; Text box: Andy Carvin and curating news -- Feature or enterprise news stories; Text box: what makes someone a good profile subject; Text box: the Christian science monitor -- Digital storytelling: design and data -- Law and ethics: producing and disseminating news.

ISBN

• 9780415890281
• 0415890284
• 9780415890304
• 0415890306
• 9780203097434
• 0203097432

LCCN

2012009464

OCLC

• ocn746837948
• 746837948
• SCSB-5851125

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries