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Author Kolodzy, Janet

Title Practicing Convergence Journalism : an Introduction to Cross-Media Storytelling
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Practicing Convergence Journalism; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface: What is New About Today's News Audiences?; Acknowledgments; 1 What's Old is New, What's New is Old; 2 Eight Elements of a News Story and the Tools to Build It; 3 Sources and Background Information: Reporting Before the Reporting; 4 Short and Fast: Covering a Spot News Story; 5 Law and Ethics: Reporting Rules of the Road; 6 Building the Spot News Story; 7 Capturing Context and Tone: Using Words, Pictures and Sound; 8 Packaging the Story: The Daily Wrap
9 The Multimedia Story: How to Help Audiences Get What They Want and Need10 Feature or Enterprise News Stories; 11 Digital Storytelling: Design and Data; 12 Law and Ethics: Producing and Disseminating News; References; Index
Summary Practicing Convergence Journalism teaches journalists how to make the most of digital technology to tell their stories effectively across multiple media platforms-in print, audio, video, and online. In this text, Janet Kolodzy identifies two types of journalistic stories: the short-form, or immediate, quick turn-around story, once called "spot news," and the longer-form or depth news feature that involves a more narrative and interactive "arc." She addresses multi-media and cross-media thinking, organizing, reporting and producing for both types of news stories. Her approach focuses on storyte
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Subject Broadcast journalism.
Convergence (Telecommunication)
Online journalism.
Reporters and reporting.
Broadcast journalism.
Convergence (Telecommunication)
Online journalism.
Reporters and reporting.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136222832
1136222839