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Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
A digital literacy guide for the information age
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Download PDF version in English, Spanish or Portuguese.For continuing discussion of new technology for journalists, check out Mark Briggs’ Journalism 2.0 blog at J-Learning.org.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Phil Meyer
Chapter 1: FTP, MB, RSS, Oh My
• Introduction: Today’s special? Acronym soup
• Digital information: Megabytes, Gigabytes and Terabytes
• How the Internet works
• About Web browsers
• RSS readers and feeds
• RSS basics
• Instant messaging
• File Transfer Protocol
Chapter 2: Web 2.0
• Welcome to Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 is all about openness, organization and community
• Tags and folksonomy: New ways to organize content
• Can you Digg it?
• What does this mean for journalism?
• Don’t know where this is heading?
Chapter 3: Tools and Toys
• Introduction
• Tools you should be using
• Mobile 2.0
• iPod: The slim, sleek 800-pound gorilla
• ‘Other’ wireless
Chapter 4: New Reporting Methods
• Introduction
• Spreadsheets and storing data
• Your ‘so-called digital life’
• Crowdsourcing
• Distributed, collaborative or open-source reporting
• Summary
Chapter 5: How to Blog
• Introduction
• What is a blog?
• Getting started
• Terminology
• Mechanics
• Frequency and handling comments
• Using photos and screenshots
• Love it or leave it
Chapter 6: How to Report News for the Web
• Introduction
Chapter 7: Digital Audio and Podcasting
• Introduction
• The basics: Audio formats
• Identifying opportunities
• Buying a recorder
• Using a microphone
• Recording with your computer
• Editing your audio
• Using time points for speed
Chapter 8: Shooting and Managing Digital Photos
• Introduction
• The basics
• Shooting basic photos with a digital camera
• Editing photographs digitally
• Summary
Chapter 9: Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories
• Introduction
• Digital video cameras
• Tapes, batteries and other accessories
• Zooming, focusing and exposure
• Get good audio
• Shooting the video
• As simple as it gets
• Do a trial run
Chapter 10: Basic Video Editing
• Introduction
• For Mac users: iMovie
• For PC users: Windows Movie Maker
Chapter 11: Writing Scripts, Doing Voice-overs
• Introduction
• Interviewing while recording
• Voice-overs
• On-camera standup
Epilogue: Putting It All Together
Appendix:
• Script for Hurricane Family Feature
Comments
The pdf link is not working!!!
This is a great resource. Will the whole thing be available online before September? I’d love to use it for my upcoming new media class. Thanks.
I’m interested. as a volunteer, in conducting a high school class based on this book. Can you email me lesson plans. My background is film and journalism, not education
This is a fabulous resource!!! I teach at a community college and I will use this text is my class in the fall. This is a great supplement to my primary text.
We are working on a similar path with the intention of offering similar tools in Spanish Language. This is very inspiring for us, since we were working with individual workshops and modules.
How would you modify these materials and provide lesson plans for training in citizen journalism. In an upscale suburb? In a middle income city community? In a low income distressed neighborhood?
We’ve added a link to your great guide from the resources section at our immigrant media project “New Routes”. We look forward to building on your lessons with a very diverse group of citizen media makers.
FYI I am using parts of your book for my New Media Workshop undergraduate and graduate classes - I teach at Hong Kong University’s Journalism & Media Studies Ctr.
http://jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/newmedia
I don’t have words to describe what a great and much-needed resource this is. I’m a recent college graduate with a Broadcast Journalism degree and worked at a local affiliate. I plan to share this with all of my old professors and colleagues. Thanks for helping all of us to navigate the digital world.
Great work- so needed in Digital AGE! Thank you for providing a great resource that can be used to shift paradigms and support innovative programs and thinkers concerned with role of media in an increasingly cybercivilization.
I will look forward to sharing it with those involved in NetGeneration of Youth Cyberjournalism!! Have a hub for NetGeneration of Youth Cyberjournalism in CT--- have worked with organizations in 28 states ... hope to help advance your visions and work!
Hope we can collaborate going forward!
Yours in vision,
ronnie
Dr Ronnie Lowenstein
202 262 1729
What a great book. All journalists should take a look at this.
Yeah! it is great!
We’re using this to help folks in rural North Carolina make videos of their small towns and capture the history of those towns in interviews with older residents.
This is a great resource, I hope you release a “3.0” version!
This book is packed with useful information. Thanks for such a wonderful reference manual.Your insight is priceless. I’ve already begun applying your guide to my job as a reporter, or should I say, multimedia reporter? Thanks.
Great! Thank you very much from Switzerland.
Can’t wait to use it,when will it be available for download .
I’ve to know where i can found a spanish version, specially en Colombia. This is an extraordinary oportunity to all the member of the information journalis comunity to learn and enjoy new oportunities with the tecnology.
I need the spanish version of Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive. ¿Is it possible?
thansks.
This is a great resource, I hope you release a “3.0” version!
Considering how many people use the internet, there are more “online” journalists than on TV. And why not, when you can see all the shows, read all the papers from a single place, why buy anything else or watch TV?
I don’t have words to describe what a great and much-needed resource this is. I’m a recent college graduate with a Broadcast Journalism degree and worked at a local affiliate. I plan to share this with all of my old professors and colleagues. Thanks for helping all of us to navigate the digital world.
really great material...Thank you!
This is a great resource for us. We really needed something like this to help. We take alot of digital photos and this help increase our quality in a big way. Thanks again.
Hola amigos, estoy muy interesado en adquirir el documento “Periodismo 2.0, una guia de alfabetización digital para sobrevivir y prosperar en la era de la información” Versión en españo. Les ruego me digan que debo hacer. Gracias. Ezequiel
I don’t have words to describe what a great and much-needed resource this is. I plan to share this with all of my colleagues. Thanks for helping all of us to navigate the digital world.
Looking forward to v 3.0 in the not too distant future.
Very interesting read. This Web 2.0 thing is revolutionizing Journalism, bringing in many citizen journalists, even those who don’t have the time and resources to complete a formal Journalism course/degree. There’s certainly no monopoly on information today.
This is a fantastic resource. Can’t wait to use it. Thanks for the info.
This is a very interesting ebook.
thanks for that book… but is it legal to download it?
I’ve been following your site for a quite while. This is a great e-book. Thanks alot!
News man, it is perfectly legal to download it. We funded and published the book under the KCNN project, so it is ours to offer as a free download.
Very interesting.
Very nice! Thanks for the book!
Thank you. Very well laid out. Have you considered having a print version to address those who havent yet made the transition? I’d be happy to help point you to a high quality yet affordable printer (In India) so that you can keep the spirit of the free ebook and yet reach others.
Very interesting book. Thank from Manizales, Colombia
This information is written in an easy to understand way and covers timely topics. This makes me wonder if pieces of your pages can be reproduced by a teacher to use in the classroom. I am a high school teacher-librarian who teachers these things to teachers and their classes. I would love to use bits and pieces from your publication. Is it allowed? If not, I’ll use yours to create my own. Thank you for posting this!
Kim, it is free to use under a creative commons license. We only request that you credit us if used in another publication.
Thanks for providing the link to the pdf
I am surprised that you are giving this away for free. This will definitely help freelancing journalists, especially those based online.
Excellent resource--exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’m going to print out a copy for our newsroom. As a student journalist who is working to launch a website for our college newspaper this book was incredibly helpful. Not only did it provide easy-to-understand explanations of technology in an encouraging manner, it touched on every necessary topic with just the right level of depth. Thank you so much.