The first reviews of Making Online News have been published in recent months. We are happy that both academic and professional publications have shown interest in the book and are grateful for the comments from such diverse international backgrounds.
Mediekultur, Journal of Media and Communication Research, number 45 (PDF, in Danish)
Textual & Visual Media, Spanish Jounralistic Society Journal, number 1 (review not available online, in Spanish)
Jornalismo & Jornalistas, magazine of the Portuguese Journalism Association, number 37 (PDF, in Portuguese)
Please, let us know if you find other reviews!
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In the last few weeks, several scholars have written about Making Online News in their blogs. We appreciate their comments and reflections, and are happy to see that the book is fostering critical thinking about online journalism!
Paul Bradshaw, on E-Media Tidbits, focuses on Lowrey and Latta’s chapter about blogging production routines, and points out that the trend they detect -the more influential bloggers become, the more their routines resemble journalism- is “dissapointing”, because he would have liked bloggers to be more innovative. “This is one of the few studies I’ve seen that examines the work practices of bloggers (…) We need more research like this”, underlines Bradshaw.
Ryan Thornburg did a survey of online journalists in North Carolina (USA), and found the book inspiring, as ethnographic evidence in its chapters confirmed his results that journalists working for the web are rather conservative regarding the exploration of Internet features, and value more traditional journalistic principles than technological skills.
Tom Van Hout reviews Making Online News among other books, and argues they are “proof that the inter/transdisciplinary study of news production and news discourse is en vogue”. We also hope that!
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