Nikki Usher is Assistant Professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University.
Making News at The New York Times is the first in-depth portrait of the nation’s, if not the world's, premier newspaper in the digital age. It presents a lively chronicle of months spent in the newsroom observing daily conversations, meetings, and journalists at work. We see Page One meetings, articles developed for online and print from start to finish, the creation of ambitious multimedia projects, and the ethical dilemmas posed by social media in the newsroom. Here, the reality of creating news in a 24/7 instant information environment clashes with the storied history of print journalism, and the tensions present a dramatic portrait of news in the online world.
This news ethnography brings to bear the overarching value clashes at play in a digital news world. The book argues that emergent news values are reordering the fundamental processes of news production. Immediacy, interactivity, and participation now play a role unlike any time before, creating clashes between old and new. These values emerge from the social practices, pressures, and norms at play inside the newsroom as journalists attempt to negotiate the new demands of their work. Immediacy forces journalists to work in a constant deadline environment, an ASAP world, but one where the vaunted traditions of yesterday's news still appear in the next day's print paper. Interactivity, inspired by the new user-computer directed capacities online and the immersive Web environment, brings new kinds of specialists into the newsroom, but exacts new demands upon the already taxed workflow of traditional journalists. And at time where social media presents the opportunity for new kinds of engagement between the audience and media, business executives hope for branding opportunities while journalists fail to truly interact with their readers.
“Nikki Usher’s portrait of journalistic work at one of the leading news organizations in the world is a fascinating window into a social field caught between the editorial values of print journalism and their emergent counterparts in the digital space. This book will greatly appeal to journalists and scholars alike.”
— Pablo J. Boczkowski, author of The News Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge
“As the embodiment of the journalism profession, The New York Times remains a worthy object of study, but few have had the access necessary for this kind of deep newsroom ethnography. Nikki Usher shows in rich and readable detail what happens when a traditional and powerful institution must adapt to the inescapable digital world.”
— Stephen D. Reese, Jesse H. Jones Professor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
“This book is illuminating and memorable, a minutely observed account of The New York Times reshaping itself in the digital age. It is immersion reportage and also a history, a snapshot of 2010. It shows a great newspaper become a print-to-Web teenager alternatively awkward, embarrassed, nuttily ambitious, idealistic, mistaken—and, despite all, true to itself.”
— Michael Schudson, Columbia University
發表於2024-12-23
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評分五星(滿分五星) 一句話總結“什麼樣的信息更有價值”背後反應齣“龐大的組織變革之下的矛盾與可能”。 整本書讀下來,我一直不斷有“這不就說我嗎?”的感受,甚至是談到《紐約時報》主動開始放棄追逐新聞的快,而引發瞭一些已經適應的記者不滿時,我發現我甚至也有相似的感受...
圖書標籤: Journalism 新聞學 新聞生産社會學 sociology new methods media, journalism
細緻紮實的田野報告,有關Immediacy的兩章特彆精彩。
評分細緻紮實的田野報告,有關Immediacy的兩章特彆精彩。
評分該怎麼說呢上上個月看完的書,已經沒有記憶瞭。但是我記得,知識量很大。不負責任地給個兩顆星好瞭。我的筆記去哪裏瞭呢,見鬼。
評分雖被戲稱為“the grey lady”,NYTimes也承受著互聯網時代對印刷媒體的衝擊。本書中,這種衝擊主要體現為對新聞生産邏輯、目標,以及方式的重塑。通過維持兩套矛盾而又相互作用的新聞生産模式(second-day-story和as-soon-as-possible journalism),NYTimes試圖達成一種傳統印刷媒體與網絡媒體之間的微妙平衡。天平的一邊是NYTimes作為一個百年報社的自我認同,另一邊則是互聯網時代對媒體的要求。對於個體記者、編輯,這意味著網絡媒體對immediacy的癡迷已滲透入他們日常的新聞生産中;對於機構而言,網絡版新聞的生産已成為其機構運行不可或缺的一部分。這種影響對於NYTimes不能簡化為印刷媒體的沒落,而是改變生産方式以應對更復雜多重的需求。
評分雖被戲稱為“the grey lady”,NYTimes也承受著互聯網時代對印刷媒體的衝擊。本書中,這種衝擊主要體現為對新聞生産邏輯、目標,以及方式的重塑。通過維持兩套矛盾而又相互作用的新聞生産模式(second-day-story和as-soon-as-possible journalism),NYTimes試圖達成一種傳統印刷媒體與網絡媒體之間的微妙平衡。天平的一邊是NYTimes作為一個百年報社的自我認同,另一邊則是互聯網時代對媒體的要求。對於個體記者、編輯,這意味著網絡媒體對immediacy的癡迷已滲透入他們日常的新聞生産中;對於機構而言,網絡版新聞的生産已成為其機構運行不可或缺的一部分。這種影響對於NYTimes不能簡化為印刷媒體的沒落,而是改變生産方式以應對更復雜多重的需求。
Making News at The New York Times 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載