Yesterday’s News  Paid

The future of long-form journalism and archives

by Marco Braghieri (Author)
©2021, Monographs, XX, 230 Pages
Media & Communication

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Digital news production has gained increasing relevance in the last two decades. This book focuses on the affordances of contemporary, accelerated digital news production, proposing a new conception and connection between long-form journalism and archives. This approach is based on a theoretical framework of the contemporary digital experience which is defined as the «Digital Landscape».

Moreover, this book focuses on platforms and their practices as influential factors regarding long-form journalism and archival production, distribution and consumption. Assessing the shared features of these two entities – long-form journalism and archives – this book investigates how they can be re-imagined and re-used within the contemporary digital landscape.

Using a combination of multiple approaches, such as digital methods, text analysis as part of critical discourse analysis and semi-structured interviews, this book identifies common traits between longform journalism and archives. It aims to satisfy the need for novel approaches in the analysis, organization and output of digital news content, identifying novel connections and pathways which can be adopted in order to establish a fuller comprehension of contemporary digital news production.

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Table of Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I The Digital Landscape and Journalism
  • Chapter 1
  • The Digital Landscape
    • Defining the Digital Landscape
      • The Digital Landscape and Its Main Actors: Individuals, Crowds and Platforms
      • Individuals, Crowds and Platforms Interactions within the Digital Landscape
    • Main Features of the Contemporary Digital Landscape
      • The Digital Landscape as Constant Flux
      • The Digital Landscape as a Disruption Enhancer
  • Chapter 2
  • The Media Industry and Archives in the Digital Landscape
    • Digital Media: A Non-creative Destruction
      • The Media Industry’s Failed Adaptation to the Digital Landscape
      • New Practices within the Digital Landscape: The Long-Tail Model and the Role of Filtering
      • The Digital Landscape as a Digital Public Sphere
    • Long-Form Journalism and Archives
      • A Functional Definition of Long-Form Journalism
      • The Common Ground between Long-Form Journalism and News Archives
  • Part II Long-Form Journalism, Two Case Studies
  • Chapter 3
  • ‘Snow Fall’: A Landmark in Long-Form Journalism
    • The New York Times ‘Snow Fall’, a Turning Point
      • An Introduction to ‘Snow Fall’
      • The Production Process and Reception of ‘Snow Fall’
      • ‘Snow Fall’s’ Structure and Writing
    • Long-Form Journalism Production in the Digital Landscape
      • ‘Snow Fall’s’ Legacy in the Development of Long-Form Journalism
      • The Influence of the Digital Landscape in the Evolution of Long-Form Journalism
  • Chapter 4
  • The Future of Long-Form Journalism: ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
    • ProPublica and The Marshall Project’s ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
      • An Introduction to ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
      • The Production Process and Reception of ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
      • ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’s’ Structure and Writing
  • Part III Archives in the Digital Landscape
  • Chapter 5
  • Archives, the Long-Term Memories of the Digital Landscape
    • Archives in the Digital Landscape: Memory and Use
      • Time in the Digital Landscape: Continuous Present and ‘Feed Fruition’
      • Archives in the Digital Landscape
    • Different News Outlet Archives in the Digital Landscape
      • Differences in News Outlet Archives in the Digital Archive
    • Early Media Production and Optical Character Recognition– Based Archives
    • Digitisation in Newsrooms and News Archives
    • Digitally Native Publishers and Archiving
  • Part IV Present and Future of Long-Form Journalism and Archives
  • Chapter 6
  • The Shared Trajectory of Long-Form Journalism and Archives
    • Common Traits between Long-Form Journalism and Archives
    • Long-Form Journalism and Archives: Relevance Over Time andAccessibility
      • Digital News Outlet Archives as Distribution Sources in the Digital Landscape
    • Long-Form Journalism and Aggregators: Longform.org
      • Longform.org as an Example of Long-Form Journalism Curation
      • Longform.org’s Activity in 2016, a Case-Study
  • Chapter 7
  • The Future of Long-Form Journalism and Archives: Digitisation, Datafication and Curation
    • Long-Form Journalism Aggregation and Curation as a Template for News Archive Fruition
      • Curation by News Media Outlets and Aggregators
      • Digitisation, Datafication and Curation
  • References
  • Appendices
  • Index
Pages:
XX, 230
Year:
2021
ISBN (PAPERBACK):
9781789979411 (Active)
ISBN (EPUB):
9781789979435 (Active)
ISBN (PDF):
9781789979428 (Active)
Language:
English
Published:
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2021. XX, 230 pp., 12 fig. b/w, 7 tables.

Marco Braghieri is a researcher working at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London as research assistant in Big Social Data. In 2019, he earned a PhD in Digital Humanities at King’s College London and has been involved in a number of EUfunded research projects. Before completing his PhD and joining King’s College London, he worked for years as a journalist and editor, developing sound experience and interest in digital journalism.

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