Introduction -- "Auntie" takes on social media -- Tweet or be sacked! -- A new order -- New structures, new actors in the newsrooms -- The connected newsroom -- Conclusion: global crises, local responses
Summary
Since the emergence of social media in the journalistic landscape, the BBC has sought to produce reporting more connected to its audience while retaining its authority as a public broadcaster in crisis reporting. Using empirical analysis of crisis news production at the BBC, this book shows that the emergence of social media at the BBC and the need to manage this kind of material led to a new media logic in which tech-savvy journalists take on a new centrality in the newsroom. In this changed context, the politico-economic and socio-cultural logic have led to a more connected newsroom involvin
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-139) and index
