The rise of online news --; Brave new media worlds: BBC News Online, the Drudge Report, and the birth of blogging --; Covering the crisis: online journalism on September 11 --; Sensational scandals: the new(s) values of blogs --; Online reporting of the war in Iraq: bearing witness --; Participatory journalism: IndyMedia, OhmyNews and Wikinews --; Citizen journalists on the scene: the London bombings and Hurricane Katrina --; New directions.
Providing an analysis of online news, this book offers insights into key debates concerning the ways in which journalism is evolving on the internet, devoting particular attention to the factors influencing its development. This book shows how the forms, practices and epistemologies of online news are conventionalized.