Journalism next : a practical guide to digital reporting and publishing / Mark Briggs ; with a foreword by Jim Brady.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

We are all digital workers now -- Blogging for better journalism -- Crowd-powered collaboration -- Microblogging and social media: publish, distribute and connect -- Going mobile -- Visual storytelling with photographs -- Making audio journalism visible -- Telling stories with video -- Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life -- Managing news as a conversation -- Building a digital audience for news.

Do you want to help build what's "next" for journalism? Then jump into Mark Briggs' proven guide for leveraging digital technology to do better journalism. The media landscape changes with such ferocious speed that as soon as new technologies gain a foothold, older ones become obsolete. To keep ahead and abreast of these ever-evolving tools and techniques, Briggs offers practical and timely guidance for both the seasoned professional looking to get up to speed and the digital native looking to root their tech know-how in real journalistic principles. Learn how to effectively blog, crowdsource, use mobile applications, mine databases, and expertly capture audio and video to report with immediacy, cultivate community, and tell compelling stories. Journalism Next will improve digital literacy, fast. Briggs begins with the basics and then explores specialized skills in multimedia so you can better manage online communities and build an online audience.