Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code - Softcover

Usher, Nikki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252081986 ISBN 13: 9780252081989

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2016

Synopsis

Interactive journalism has transformed the newsroom. Emerging out of changes in technology, culture, and economics, this new specialty uses a visual presentation of storytelling that allows users to interact with the reporting of information. Today it stands at a nexus: part of the traditional newsroom, yet still novel enough to contribute innovative practices and thinking to the industry.

Nikki Usher brings together a comprehensive portrait of nothing less than a new journalistic identity. Usher provides a history of the impact of digital technology on reporting, photojournalism, graphics, and other disciplines that define interactive journalism. Her eyewitness study of the field's evolution and accomplishments ranges from the interactive creation of Al Jazeera English to the celebrated data desk at the Guardian to the New York Times' Pulitzer-endowed efforts in the new field. What emerges is an illuminating, richly reported profile of the people coding a revolution that may reverse the decline and fall of traditional journalism.

About this title

About the Author

Nikki Usher is an assistant professor at the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. She is the author of Making News at the New York Times.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252081986
• ISBN 13: 9780252081989
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272