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Practicing Convergence Journalism An Introduction to Cross-Media Storytelling

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ISBN-10: 0415890306

ISBN-13: 9780415890304

Edition: 2012

Authors: Janet Kolodzy

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Convergence Journalismteaches journalists how to make the most of digital technology to tell their stories effectively across multiple media platforms—in print, audio, video, and online. Janet Kolodzy demonstrates how to organize and coordinate fundamental building blocks—planning, reporting, and producing—for successful multimedia storytelling. This book identifies two types of journalistic stories: the short-form, or immediate, quick turn-around story, once called "spot news," and the longer-form news feature that will involve a narrative and interactive "arc." It addresses multi-media and cross-media thinking, organizing, reporting and producing for both types of news stories. Kolodzy’s…    
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Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

List of Figures
Preface: What is New About Today's News Audiences?
Acknowledgments
What's Old is New, What's New is Old
Eight Elements of a News Story and the Tools to Build It
Sources and Background Information: Reporting Before the Reporting
Short and Fast: Covering a Spot News Story
Law and Ethics: Reporting Rules of the Road
Building the Spot News Story
Capturing Context and Tone: Using Words, Pictures and Sound
Packaging the Story: The Daily Wrap
The Multimedia Story: How to Help Audiences Get What They Want and Need
Feature or Enterprise News Stories
Digital Storytelling: Design and Data
Law and Ethics: Producing and Disseminating News
References
Index