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As the news business transforms, Online Journalism is a fantastic new resource for both students and lecturers. Informative, straightforward and easily digested, it’s a one-stop shop for the skills, knowledge, principles and mindset required for journalistic success in the digital age.
An essential guide for anyone hungry to learn how journalism should be practised today, and will be tomorrow. Hill and Lashmar encapsulate the transformative impact technology is having on journalism, but anchor those changes in the basic principles of reporting.
This book serves as a sharp and succinct guide to learning the skills for real-world journalism in the online era. Packed with the unusual mix of recent and relevant case studies, practical advice and the intellectual underpinnings of the practice, this serves as a very effective handbook indeed for those learning the trade.
The steady decline in circulation of the print media continues to be a source of deep concern: there is much talk of the slow death of our trade. But Paul Lashmar shows how serious, cutting-edge reporting can not only survive but take a leap forward with the use of new technology.
No longer merely “writing for the Web”, “online journalism” is a term which now encompasses a range of skills as broad as journalism itself, including subjects that together could fill an entire undergraduate course: from online video and audio to data and visual journalism, social media and community management, advanced search techniques and verification, new ethical and legal considerations, and programming. Even “writing for the Web” requires an exploration of search engine optimisation, social media optimisation and Web analytics.
A great book. Quite practical and easy to learn from.
As the title says - essential reading.
Very informative book. Recommended.
A very useful, accessible and up-to-date handbook for online journalism. This will be incorporated into Online Journalism sessions that I do with both Sports Journalism and Journalism students.
The book is highly essential for many of our courses and we have decided to use it in additional five courses, i.e. during Fall semester for a group of circa 25 students. One of these courses also have an additional of circa 25 international exchange students. So in total we will have approximately 75-80 students per year reading and using the book as course literature.
The book contains practical information on both foundation level (essential skills, knowing the users/audience) and multimedia skills. It is also good to see the 'data journalism' and 'entrepreneurship' (newsonomics) part in a book aiming beginners. Becoming a thinking journalist (ethics and good practice) also another good part. I recommend this textbook for 'New media and journalism/publishing/broadcasting' course students.
Hill and Lashmar's book combines theory and practice in an easily accessible volume which I will recommend to my students as supplemental reading for their Practical Journalism studies.
it is the future of journalism and if i can get the podcasting module added to the course then the online journalism book will go from recommended to essential
