1st Edition

Milestones in Digital Journalism

Edited By John V. Pavlik Copyright 2024
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Milestones in Digital Journalism sets out ten defining moments that changed the way we understand, produce, finance and engage with the news today. Designed for weekly use on digital journalism courses, these ten milestones provide a conceptual roadmap to understanding the subject while drawing on case study examples which help students home in on key markers in its history. Each milestone is... Read more

Introduction

John V. Pavlik, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Chapter 1. Stealing the newspaper: How the web changed everything for news

Robin Ewing, Hong Kong Baptist University

Chapter 2: Data journalism: The emergence of computational journalism at Georgia Tech, 2006–2008

Nicholas Diakopolous, Northwestern University

Chapter 3. Interactivity, multimedia, and animation in news storytelling: The New York Times’ “Snowfall,” Swedish SvD’s “Räntekartan,” and Brazilian Aos Fatos' “Fátima”

Ester Appelgren, Södertörn University

Chapter 4. Social media, citizen reporting, and journalism: Police killing of George Floyd, 2020

Allissa V. Richardson, University of Southern California

Chapter 5. The (mobile) news ecosystem milestone

Carl-Gustav Linden, University of Bergen, Mikko Villi, University of Jyväskylä, and Oscar Westlund, Oslo Metropolitan University and University of Gothenburg

Chapter 6. Casting out empire: Dipsaus and the challenge and promise of Black independent podcasting in the Netherlands

Chenjerai Kumanyika, New York University

Chapter 7. Immersive journalism: Beyond the rectangle with Nonny de la Peña’s Hunger in Los Angeles, 2012

Dan Pacheco, Syracuse University

Chapter 8. Drones, satellites and journalism: Telecopter launches aerial journalism, 1958

Kearston L. Wesner, Quinnipiac University

Chapter 9. Algorithms and journalism: A case study of an AI-driven news ranking and recommendation system

Donghee Shin, Chung-Ang University, South Korea

Chapter 10. AI, digital strategy and emerging revenue models for news: The Wall St. Journal’s smart paywall, 2018

Jeremy Gilbert, Northwestern University

Reading List

Glossary

Timeline

Index

Biography

John V. Pavlik is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.