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There’s never been a more challenging—yet exciting—time to be a journalist. But in order to survive and thrive, journalists need to master new tools. Timely, to-the-point, and tested, Journalism Next updates Mark Briggs’ popular online guide Journalism 2.0 and explains how to use the latest software, tools, and concepts, empowering journalists to harness technology and take control of their futures in journalism.

Journalism Next is required reading for both seasoned journalists seeking a digital roadmap and digital natives looking to connect their technological know-how to the profession’s best practices. Learn how to use blogs, crowdsourcing, mobile applications, databases, audio, and video to report with immediacy, cultivate community, and tell compelling stories. Journalism Next will improve digital literacy, fast.

Read from cover to cover or dip in and out of this handy guide. In addition to recurring headings that draw you through the chapters, these features will help you find what you need:

• Tech Innovators: In their own words, top professionals share the ways they use digital technology to do better journalism. Go behind the scenes with experts from leading news organizations.

• Drilling Down: Ready for more? Breakout boxes help you move beyond the basics to more technical and advanced concepts.

• Get Going Checklists: Actually doing it makes all the difference. Step-by-step instructions let you jump right in.

• Illustrations: Useful graphics supplement how-to instructions and show how news sites are putting technology to work.

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Foreword: Jennifer Sizemore, Executive Editor, MSNBC.com

Introduction: Mark Briggs

UNIT ONE. Basics
1. We are all Web workers now
2. Blogging: Beyond the basics
3. Crowd-powered collaboration
4. Microblogging: Write small, think big
5. Going mobile

UNIT TWO. Multimedia
6. Visual storytelling with photographs
7. Making audio journalism “visible”
8. Telling stories with video

UNIT THREE. Editing and Decision Making
9. Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life
10. Managing news as a conversation
11. Building an audience online

“Journalism used to be taught by old guys like me who spun tales about reporting the news when we were young. Now technology is disrupting the field so swiftly that emulating the old craftspeople is not enough. Students must be convinced that their generation has to invent the next journalism, and they must be empowered to take some risks. Mark Briggs has provided just the right tone in this handbook. With his inventory of tools and opportunities, young journalists will be better positioned to find their way, and they will recognize the wondrous possibilities of an unknown future.”

“This book fills a missing niche in journalism education—providing a real-life primer on tools and technology needed and used by today’s leading journalists. Its strengths include the authenticity provided by a learned journalist who actually practices what he preaches; its strong offering of straight-forward advice; its simplicity and engaging style—even a technological neophyte won’t be skittish to use this book; yet the book is authoritative and solidly framed in quality journalism—the technology encourages rather than consumes good story-telling.”

“Mark Briggs has done a terrific job in providing a framework for people who would be part of tomorrow's journalistic ecosystem -- high- level concepts plus nuts and bolts specifics on how to proceed, in a creative and engaging format.”

“The more I dig into Journalism Next, the more I like it. It's set up perfectly to teach my students and is exactly what I was looking for in a practical class.”

"Journalism Next is the book I've been waiting for... My students told me that it was refreshing to encounter some optimism about journalism. I believe they will also be impressed with how easy this book makes it for them to take the technology they're already (in many cases) using to improve their reporting, build audiences, listen more effectively to communities and tell more interesting stories."