Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Journalism Online tackles the pressing question of how to apply fundamental journalism skills to the online medium. It provides an essential guide to the Internet as a research and publishing tool. In particular, it examines how to forge key journalism skills with the distinctive qualities of the World Wide Web to provide compelling web content. Trainee and practicing online journalists will learn: - core journalism skills of identifying, collecting, selecting and presenting news and information; - multimedia skills such as audio recording and editing; - online research methods including use of search tools, newsgroups and listservs; - story construction and writing for the Web; - an introduction to HTML; - web site design for the effective use of content. Journalism Online takes the best of the 'new' and 'old' media to provide an essential primer for this emerging discipline. Leading web designers such as Jakob Nielsen rub shoulders with established journalists like Harold Evans in the search for clear guidance in this rapidly developing field. It also provides a useful insight for non-news organisations into how to prepare and present effective web content and avoid the deepest pitfall of the online world - being ignored. Supplementary resources can be found on the book's supporting web site www.journalismonline.co.uk, which features additional exercises, useful links and reviews.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. vii)
• 1 What is online journalism? (p. 1)
• Dot coms, dot bombs, dot rot and roll (p. 1)
• Some definitions (p. 7)
• What makes online journalism distinctive? (p. 18)
• What has been the effect of all this on journalism so far? (p. 26)
• Further reading and references (p. 28)
• 2 The core journalism (p. 29)
• 'You cannot teach journalism' (p. 29)
• The core journalistic process (p. 30)
• Further reading and references (p. 64)
• 3 Online research and reporting (p. 67)
• The impact of online on research and reporting (p. 68)
• Further reading and references (p. 98)
• 4 Writing (p. 102)
• Core writing skills (p. 103)
• Story structure (p. 109)
• Further reading and references (p. 120)
• 5 Online story construction (p. 121)
• Non-linear storytelling (p. 121)
• Writing for online (p. 128)
• Leverage those strengths (p. 131)
• Further reading and references (p. 149)
• 6 Who's afraid of HTML? (p. 150)
• HTML - random definitions (p. 150)
• HTML - some urban myths (p. 151)
• What does a tag look like? (p. 152)
• Exercises (p. 154)
• Further reading and references (p. 163)
• 7 Design your web resource (p. 164)
• Conflicting views and common ground (p. 164)
• Language problems (p. 168)
• Is online the right medium for my message? (p. 173)
• Who am I trying to communicate with? (p. 174)
• Define the mission and goals for your site (p. 180)
• Consider and organize your potential content (p. 185)
• Putting the content sections into a structure (p. 188)
• Page inventories (p. 192)
• Give users the tools to find their way around the sections (p. 193)
• Present the whole package effectively (p. 196)
• Interface and usability (p. 206)
• Further reading and references (p. 207)
• Index (p. 209)

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