Online Journalism
The Essential Guide
- Steve Hill - Southampton Solent University, UK, Westminster University, UK
- Paul Lashmar - Brunel University , UK, Sussex University, UK
Introduction to Journalism
"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."
- Paul Lewis, The Guardian
"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."
- Mary Braid, Kingston University
Online and social media have become indispensible 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.
What this book does for you:
- Tips and advice from leading industry experts in their own words
- QR codes throughout the book to take you straight to multimedia links
- A fully up-to-date companion website loaded with teaching resources, detailed careers advice and industry insights
- Exercises to help you hone your skills
- Top five guided reading list for each topic, so you can take it further
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. Adding the QR codes for links also a good touch, because most of the time students are using their mobile devices to reach the websites.
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
