Reviews

Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing — ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees. Yet...

Strategic training for journalists is helping news organisations build readership and drive online innovation, a new book has affirmed. News, Improved: How America’s Newsrooms Are Learning to Change, which reports findings of the first-of-its-kind $10 million training and research project by the John S and James L Knight Foundation, comes at a critical time as the digital revolution transforms the...

The 1960s was the “anything goes” decade; a time when LSD, hippies, rock ‘n’ roll and free love were youth’s reactions to the assassinations of its leaders and a war in Vietnam. It was a time when a few journalists wanted to be hip and cover the cultural revolution from the inside. They believed that the standard method of reporting — “get the facts, get both sides, and keep your opinions to...