TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Steve AU - Lashmar,Paul TI - Online journalism: the essential guide SN - 9781446207352 AV - PN4784.O62 .H548 PY - 2014/// CY - Los Angeles PB - Sage KW - Online journalism N1 - What are the Essential Skills? -- Understanding Your Users -- Writing for the Web -- Telling the Story with Images -- Using Audio and Podcasts -- Working with Video -- Doing Investigative Reporting -- Social Media and Building Online Communities -- Blogging and Participatory Journalism -- Freelancing and Entrepreneurial Journalism -- Outputting for Web, Smartphone, and Tablet -- Ethics and Good Practice -- Law and Regulation -- How the Internet Transformed Journalism N2 - Online and social media have become indispensable tools for journalists, but you still have to know how to find and tell a great story. To be a journalist today, you must have not only the practical skills to work with new technologies, but also the understanding of how and why journalism has changed. Combining theory and practice, Online Journalism will take you through the classic skills of investigating, writing and reporting as you master the new environments of mobile, on-demand, social, participatory and entrepreneurial journalism. You will also develop must-have skills in app development for smartphones and tablets, as well as techniques in podcast, blog and news website production ER -