Online Journalism: Reporting, Writing, and Editing for New Media (with InfoTrac) [Paperback]

Richard Craig (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0534531466 | ISBN-13: 978-0534531461 | Publication Date: May 17, 2004 | Edition: 1

ONLINE JOURNALISM: REPORTING, WRITING AND EDITING FOR NEW MEDIA is the first truly comprehensive textbook available that can teach students how to report, write, and edit strictly for online media. Unlike other texts that simply "tweak" traditional writing and editing techniques, ONLINE JOURNALISM was created specifically with the Internet in mind. Written in a lively style, this book will appeal to students who want to explore writing opportunities with online media. It is also supplemented by an in-depth Web site that provides links to relevant current stories and sound clips of interviews with professionals.

Editorial Reviews

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"The single most important strength of this book is that it is broad, but detailed. It covers the range of issues and topics that students need to know in order to better understand the online environment and to succeed in that special subsection called journalism."

"(ONLINE JOURNALISM's) strongest aspect is that is devotes the majority of the chapters to reporting and editing in a Web environment."

"This book has the potential to make a fresh contribution to the online journalism course because it contains material, such information specifically about online writing and multimedia formats, not in other texts."

About the Author

Richard Craig is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University. He received his Ph.D. in Communications from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. Before entering academia, he spent six years as a reporter and editor for newspapers in California and Illinois. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Philadelphia Daily News and many other publications. He also has designed many Web sites and portals for university departments, student newspapers and campus organizations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 284 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 1 edition (May 17, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534531466
• ISBN-13: 978-0534531461
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Informative but a Little Over the Top, February 15, 2006

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Katherine Birkbeck (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Online Journalism: Reporting, Writing, and Editing for New Media (with InfoTrac) (Paperback)

Online Journalism: Reporting, Writing and Editing for New Media is an informative book that explains the difference in writing for traditional media/press and the Web. The book does a great job of explaining why writing is so different on the Web and it illustrates the types of things that one must do in order to get a job in this new and growing profession. Although the comparisons are very effective in showing this difference in the beginning chapters, it become very monotonous to explain these differences throughout the book. A few of the chapters become long and over analytical because of such comparisons - specifically the chapters on interviewing and searching for information. I think it would have been more effective to have one chapter that gives a background on traditional media and then move on instead of badgering the point that the two are different. However, that is not to say that I didn't learn a lot from this book about writing, because I did.

It is obvious by the way that the author writes that he has an extensive background in this field and really cares about sharing this information with others. This helps the book in many ways to get the important point across.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful tool for student online journalists, February 20, 2006

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Katrina Wood (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Online Journalism: Reporting, Writing, and Editing for New Media (with InfoTrac) (Paperback)

I am currently a graduate student in a writing program, and my background is in journalism. While my goal is to write for travel magazines, I certainly need to have a good understanding of web writing, more knowledge about creating and keeping up a web page (especially for a future publication), and some idea of how my writing must look on that page when it's published.

I found this book to be quite useful for online journalism practices, and I appreciated the many real world applications that the author used. The author, Dr. Richard Craig, has much experience in journalism himself, and he enforces the common practices of good writing that all journalism students should keep in mind. He is very thorough, but go on and stick with him until the end of this book.

Dr. Craig's book may be outdated in a matter of years or less, but overall, this is still a very helpful and timely textbook. Read it, even if you don't have to for a class!