Engaged Journalism : Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences / Jake Batsell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Batsell, Jake, author.

Contributor:

Briggs, Mark, Contributor.

Series:

Columbia Journalism Review Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--History--21st century--United States.

Journalism.

News audiences--History--21st century--United States.

News audiences.

Online journalism--History--21st century--United States.

Online journalism.

Social media and journalism--United States.

Social media and journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engaged Journalism explores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists can use to secure the attention of news consumers. Based on Jake Batsell's extensive experience and interaction with more than twenty innovative newsrooms, this book shows that, even as news organizations are losing their agenda-setting power, journalists can still thrive by connecting with audiences through online technology and personal interaction. Batsell conducts interviews with and observes more than two dozen traditional and startup newsrooms across the United States and the United Kingdom. Traveling to Seattle, London, New York City, and Kalamazoo, Michigan, among other locales, he attends newsroom meetings, combs through internal documents, and talks with loyal readers and online users to document the successes and failures of the industry's experiments with paywalls, subscriptions, nonprofit news, live events, and digital tools including social media, data-driven interactives, news games, and comment forums. He ultimately concludes that, for news providers to survive, they must constantly listen to, interact with, and fulfill the specific needs of their audiences, whose attention can no longer be taken for granted. Toward that end, Batsell proposes a set of best practices based on effective, sustainable journalistic engagement.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword / Briggs, Mark

Preface

Acknowledgments

Interviews

Introduction: Why Engagement Matters

1. Face-to-Face Engagement: How News Organizations Build Digital Loyalty and Generate Revenue Through the "Original Platform"

2. News as Conversation: Not Just Informing but Involving the Audience

3. Mining Niche Communities: Serving Topical and Hyperlocal Audiences Through Digital and Mobile Platforms

4. Search, Explore, Play: Drawing Readers into Journalism Through Interactive Experiences

5. Sustaining Engaged Journalism: Measuring and Monetizing the Audience Relationship

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231538671

0231538677

OCLC:

902416473