Online Journalism: Principles and Practices of News for the Web will help students apply developing journalistic skills to the Internet. The book reviews basic principles of journalism (such as objectivity, fairness and accuracy) while showing readers how to put these principles into practice online. The book—a comprehensive, up-to-date look at the most relevant skills and issues in this field—presents a combination of broad conventions, basic technological information and practical applications. The author shows how the Internet can be used to take journalism in new, more participatory directions. He reminds his readers that technology will be increasingly important in the future and that Web operations will be an integral part of the newsgathering operation, but that journalistic principles and skills will still be at the core of what journalists do.
Highlights of the Book Include: Four chapters that provide an overview of online journalism and its technical foundations
Five chapters that discuss actual practices of online journalism, such as designing Web pages, writing and editing stories online and using links in online stories
Two chapters that review the opportunities and challenges that online journalists will continue to confront
Numerous screenshots illustrating actual Web sites and reinforcing lessons from the text
A companion Web site that provides additional original content and links to references, sources, examples, online tutorials and more. Designed to enhance your students' learning, it will allow them to explore topics in greater detail. The site will be updated regularly with new and updated links.
An Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint presentation available on adoption.
Read the text of the review that appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.
| C O N T E N T S | Preface
To the Student
1 Introduction to Online Journalism
What Is Journalism?
Advantages of Online Journalism
Types of Online Journalism Sites
Evaluating Online Sites
Beginning Your Journey into Online Journalism
What's Next • Activities
2 Tools and Terminology
The Internet and the World Wide Web
Digital Media
Hardware
Software
What's Next • Activities
3 HTML and Authoring
HTML Standards
Basic HTML
Formatting Text
Using Authoring Programs
Putting Your Files on the Web
What's Next • Activities
4 Working in Online Journalism
Creating Online Journalism
Online Journalism Organizations: Three Case Studies
What's Next • Activities
5 Using Online Reporting Sources
The Internet as a Reporting Source
E-mail Related Sources
Web Page–Based Sources
Evaluating Sources
What's Next • Activities
6 Web Page Design
Basic Online Journalism Design
Principles of Design
Using Text
Using Color and Graphics
Using Tables to Design Web Pages
What's Next • Activities
7 Writing and Editing Online
Writing for the Online Reader
Text-Based Online Story Forms
Updating Online Stories
What's Next • Activities
8 Using Links in Online Stories
Creating Links Using HTML
Linking Issues
Selecting Links
Presenting Links
Shells
What's Next • Activities
9 Multimedia and Interactivity
Types of Media Elements
Advanced Interactivity
Making Media Decisions
Examples of Interactive and Multimedia Content
What's Next • Activities
10 Legal and Ethical Issues
Libel
Obscenity and Indecency
Copyright
Linking Law
Ethical Issues
What's Next • Activities
11 Opportunities and Challenges
The Economic Structure of Online Journalism
The Role of Online Journalism in Society
Convergence
Service to Underrepresented Communities
What's Next • Activities
Appendix A Common Text-Formatting Selectors in CSS
Appendix B Common Positioning and Design Selectors in CSS
Glossary
Index
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