Authors
The Editors
Chris Paterson is a Senior Lecturer with the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Leeds (UK). In 2004 he co-edited International News in the 21st Century. Paterson is an advisor to Newsdesk.org, and is the founder of the Working Group on Media Production Analysis of the IAMCR.
David Domingo is Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa (USA) and Assistant Professor in the Communication Department at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). His research focuses on the development of online journalists working routines and values, and their adoption of convergence and audience participation. He was president of the Catalan Online Journalism association from 2004 to 2006.
Chapter authors
Jody Brannon began working in online news in 1995 for the Washington Post followed by nearly five years at USAToday.com as executive producer. In 2006 she joined Microsoft’s MSN.com. Her doctoral research examined online newsrooms and she has taught in the American University’s graduate program in interactive journalism. She is a board member of the Online News Association, Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the University of Washington’s Graduate Program in Digital Media.
Axel Bruns is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (Australia), author of Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production and editor of Uses of Blogs. He is currently finishing a new book, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, about the growing trend towards user-led content creation.
Anthony Cawley is a research officer in the Center for Society, Technology and Media at Dublin City University (Ireland). His doctoral research studied innovation in Ireland’s digital content industry. He has published in international journals and his research interests include content innovation, consumption of media technologies, and journalism.
Vinciane Colson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Her research interests are media convergence and science journalism.
Mark Deuze holds a joint appointment at Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications in Bloomington (USA) and as Professor of Journalism and New Media at Leiden University (The Nether-lands). He has published five books—Media Work (Polity Press, 2007) is the most recent. He has also published articles in New Media & Society, Journalism Studies and the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Edgardo Pablo García is a doctoral candidate at University of Westminster (London) and Senior Lecturer at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa in Buenos Aires. He has been a Lecturer at Aberdeen Business School and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. His main research interests are online journalism, political communication, and global media.
François Heinderyckx is a professor in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where he is chair of the Masters in Information and Communication. He is president of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and one of the project leaders of the Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS (France). His research interests include journalism and new media, political communication and ICTs.
Johan Lagerkvist is a research fellow and China specialist with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm. His research interests concern Chinese domestic and foreign policy, and the role of the mass media and the Internet in expanding the public sphere in East and Southeast Asia. He has published articles in China Information, China: An International Journal, and Journal of Contemporary China.
John Latta is a doctoral candidate in the College of Communi-cation and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama (USA). He is a trade publication editor and formerly a journalist for dailies and weeklies in New Zeland, Australia, the USA and the UK.
Wilson Lowrey is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama (USA). His research focuses on the sociology of news work and he has been published in a number of journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism, and Journal of Media Economics.
Roel Puijk is a social anthropologist and is currently pro-fessor in the Department of Television Production and Film Studies at Lille-hammer University College (Norway). He has done research on television and cross-media production, the production and reception of the Olympic Games, and in other fields such as tourism and youth culture. He is currently the leader of the research project, “Television in a Digital Environment” (tide.hil.no).
Thorsten Quandt is a Junior Professor with the Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft at the Free University Berlin (Germany). He has edited and co-published more than 50 articles and books, including Journalism Research: An Introduction (together with Thomas Hanitzsch, forthcoming). Currently, he is the chair of the research network, “Integrative theories in Communication Studies,” the co-chair of the Journalism Division in the German Communication Association (DGPuK), and an editor for the theory section of the international journal, Journalism Studies.
Jane B. Singer is the Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire (UK) and an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Univer-sity of Iowa (USA). She is the co-author of Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Traditions (M.E. Sharpe, 2007), and has been writing about journalists’ transitions to online media environments since the mid-1990s.