Breaking down the walls of the traditional newsroom, "Rebuilding the News" traces the evolution of news reporting as it moves from print to online. As the business models of newspapers have collapsed, author C. W. Anderson chronicles how bloggers, citizen journalists, and social networks are implicated in the massive changes confronting journalism.
Through a combination of local newsroom fieldwork, social-network analysis, and online archival research, "Rebuilding the News" places the current shifts in news production in socio-historical context. Focusing on the "Philadelphia Inquirer,"...
Breaking down the walls of the traditional newsroom, "Rebuilding the News" traces the evolution of news reporting as it moves from print to online....
Over the past decade, the institutions and business models of American journalism have been utterly transformed. Through a combination of local newsroom ethnography, social-network analysis, and online archival research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this book places current shifts in news production in perspective. The book also breaks down the walls of the traditional newsroom in order to study how bloggers and citizen journalists were implicated in the massive changes confronting journalism.
Over the past decade, the institutions and business models of American journalism have been utterly transformed. Through a combination of local newsro...