Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code

by Nikki Usher

Interactive journalism has transformed the newsroom. Emerging out of changes in technology, culture, and economics, this new specialty uses a visual presentation of storytelling that allows users to interact with the reporting of information. Today it stands at a part of the traditional newsroom, yet still novel enough to contribute innovative practices and thinking to the industry. Nikki Usher brings together a comprehensive portrait of nothing less than a new journalistic identity. Usher provides a history of the impact of digital technology on reporting, photojournalism, graphics, and other disciplines that define interactive journalism. Her eyewitness study of the field's evolution and accomplishments ranges from the interactive creation of Al Jazeera English to the celebrated data desk at the Guardian to the New York Times' Pulitzer-endowed efforts in the new field. What emerges is an illuminating, richly reported profile of the people coding a revolution that may reverse the decline and fall of traditional journalism.

Genres: Journalism

272 pages, Hardcover

Published October 13, 2016

Reviews

[✧sara✧]

Written by someone clearly still stuck in the "Golden Age" of the newsroom.

[Donna]

Timely, easy to read whether you are a journalist or not, important look at the impact of reporting and technology on the information we share.