Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

by David Domingo (Author), ZviReich (Author), JaneB.Singer (Author), ThorstenQuandt (Author), Ari Heinonen (Author), Alfred Hermida (Author), StevePaulussen (Author), Marina Vujnovic (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $88.58

  This book is based on a collaborative research project by an international team of journalism scholars. It provides insights into how journalists at websites affiliated with leading national newspapers in ten Western democracies are dealing with the inclusion of content produced and published by the people once viewed simply as 'the audience.

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $35.60

  Who makes the news in a digital age? Participatory Journalism offers fascinating insights into how journalists in Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced and published by the public. * A timely look at digital news, the changes it is bringing for journalists and an industry in crisis * Original data throughout, in the form of in-depth interviews with dozens of journalists at leading news organizations in ten Western democracies * Provides a unique model of the news-making process and its openness to user participation in five stages * Gives a first-hand look at the workings and challenges of online journalism on a global scale, through data that has been seamlessly combined so that each chapter presents the views of journalists in many nations, highlighting both similarities and differences, both national and individual