Knowledge management in the digital newsroom / Stephen Quinn.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Quinn, Stephen, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Electronic news gathering.
• Knowledge management.
• News agencies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Focal Press, [2002]

Contents:

• 1 Knowledge management and journalism 1
• Information a glut product 4
• From information scarcity to surplus 6
• Declines in circulation 8
• Technology a powerful driver 11
• Social and economic causes of change 13
• The role of media giants 14
• Changes in consumer attitudes 15
• Managing knowledge in the newsroom 17
• New skills for the knowledge age 21
• New approaches for a new age 25
• 2 The re-defined newsroom 31
• Attitude: changing newsroom mindsets 33
• Links between technology and mindset 37
• Blending competition and co-operation 39
• Physical: moving the furniture around 41
• Technical change: acceptance of technology 52
• From a production to an information base 54
• 3 The coming of convergence journalism 59
• Factors influencing multiple-journalism 62
• America's first convergence company 65
• Multiple-journalism elsewhere in the USA 74
• Convergence in Hong Kong and Singapore 77
• Changes in Australian newsrooms 81
• Multi-media television coverage 84
• Opposing views of multiple-journalism 86
• 4 Intranets and knowledge management 94
• What is an intranet? 95
• Intranets and collaboration 96
• Intranets: catalysts for change 98
• A single source of information 103
• Intranets for research 103
• Cheaper to distribute electronic documents 105
• Intranets save time through convenience 107
• Intranets boost morale 109
• Anticipating potential problems 109
• 5 New tools for journalists 114
• Analysing successful data managers 115
• The Advanced Journalist Technology Project 117
• Newsplex: the newsroom of the future 123
• Computer-assisted reporting 125
• Geographical information systems 126
• Databases for information management 128
• Extensible markup language 131
• XML enables convergence journalism 132
• 6 Mobile journalism 139
• Mobile telephone generations 140
• Main transmission technologies 140
• Wireless application protocol 142
• DoCoMo's i-mode 143
• Open versus closed standards 144
• Enabling the virtual newsroom 145
• The virtual newsroom in practice 148
• Unique issues for mobile reporting 152
• Developing wireless content 154
• The future is still unfolding 157
• 7 How to involve and evolve the newsroom 161
• Danger: speed can trap the unwary 162
• Vital to invest in training 163
• Universities' role in the future 165
• The ideal journalism recruit 170
• A knowledge-based daily: Maeil Business Newspaper 173
• Putting it all together 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

024051677X

OCLC:

49995864