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Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC's Coverage of War and Terrorism


Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC's Coverage of War and Terrorism

Hardback by Bennett, Daniel

Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC's Coverage of War and Terrorism

£150.00

ISBN:
9780415819213
Publication Date:
16 Apr 2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
280 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC's Coverage of War and Terrorism

Description

This book explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC's coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists' shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other conflicts. He argues that the BBC's practices and values are fundamentally evolving in response to the challenges of immediate digital publication. Ongoing challenges for journalism in the online media environment are identified: maintaining impartiality in the face of calls for more open personal journalism; ensuring accuracy when the power of the "former audience" allows news to break at speed; and overcoming the limits of the scale of the BBC's news operation in order to meet the demands to present news as conversation. While the focus of the book is on the BBC's coverage of war and terrorism, the conclusions are more widely relevant to the evolving practice of journalism at traditional media organizations as they grapple with a revolution in publication.

Contents

Introduction: The Impact of Blogging on the BBC's Coverage of War and Terrorism 1. The "War and Terror" Blogosphere 2. Blogs: "Rumour, Prejudice and Gossip" or "Standard" BBC Source? 3. Reporting Conflict from News Needles in Digital Haystacks 4. Information Overload, the 24/7 News Cycle and the Turn to Twitter 5. "Outside the BBC Universe?' Blogging at the BBC 6. "Can You Teach Granddad How to Dance?'"Involving the Audience on BBC Programme Blogs 7. "Live Blogging" Terror: The BBC's Coverage of the Attacks on Mumbai 8. Reporting Conflict: War in Gaza and the Limits of the News Revolution. Conclusion: The Two Faces of Janus: The Future of Journalism

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