Journalism Online, Second Edition: How to create effective content for news websites

Journalism Online tackles the pressing question of how to apply fundamental journalism skills to the online medium. It provides a comprehensive guide to the Internet as a journalistic tool, examining in particular how to forge key journalism skills with the distinctive qualities of the web to provide compelling web content. The second edition has been considerably expanded to reflect the skills and techniques that have emerged as the role of the online journalist becomes more established.New material now featured:·Writing for the web, including writing headlines, summaries, indexes, links, captions and bullet points ·Digital story-telling, bringing together text, images (still and moving), audio and data links·Using non-standard sources of information, including blogs and the invisible web·Multiskilling within a digital environment·News websites, covering the specifics of information architecture and user experience, as well as Weblogs, RSS and the use of dynamic data·Other platforms such as wireless and interactive TV·A comprehensive glossary of termsThe book is written with the student and trainee online journalist in mind, though also provides valuable advise for anyone working on news websites.Supplementary resources can also be found on the book's supporting website, which now features a weblog and exercises for download to supplement and update those at the end of each chapter in the book. * Your one-stop-shop to creating compelling content for news web sites * This new edition now features even more advice on writing, digital storytelling, research, site architecture, and much, much more * Additional information and resources provided by accompanying web site, including a weblog and exercises for downloading