Power Journalism Computer-Assisted Reporting

by Miller, Lisa C.

• ISBN13: 9780155039766
• ISBN10: 0155039768
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-14
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Providing both practical and theoretical information for student journalists who need to know how and why, POWER JOURNALISM demystifies online research by outlining and explaining computer-assisted reporting techniques. In clear, easy-to-understand explanations of the latest research technologies, this text details how and why journalists use specific resources, and provides actual computer commands for using each resource, as well as written examples by journalists who utilized the discussed technology. Resources discussed include: newsgroups; bulletin board systems; commercial databases; commercial services such as Compuserve, FTP, Gopher, the World Wide Web, CD-ROM databases, spreadsheet and database management programs; and information on nine-track tape and floppy disks.

Table of Contents

1. Car Chases, Elevators and Dogs Named Bear: What Computer- Assisted Reporting Is All About

2. Journalists in Cyberspace

3. BBS, AOL, and Other Letters of the Online Alphabet

4. Special Deliveries: Finding People and Stories with Electronic Mail

5. Everybody's Talking: Usenet Newsgroups and Internet Relay Chat

6. Traveling Through Cyberspace: Telnet and FTP

7. Gopher - Menus by the Millions

8. An Information Explosion - The World Wide Web

9. It's Computerized, But It's Not Online, Part I- Information on CD

10. Finding Meaning with Spreadsheets and Database Managers - An Introduction

11. Spreadsheets - By the Number

12. Sorting and Matchmaking - Using a Database Management Program to Find Meaning

13. It's Computerized, But It's Not Online, Part II - Information on Floppy Disk or Tape

14. Life, and More Work, After CAR

15. Legal and Ethical Questions and CAR

16. The Learning Goes On

Appendix A: World Wide Web Sites

Appendix B: Exercises

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