Journo-morphosis: Today's new media and the education and training of tomorrow's 'cool' journalists

Convergence

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 77-93

  Bromley, Michael ^a   Purdey, Heather ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61049360623     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135485659800400408     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. The word is derived from mediamorphosis - 'The transformation of communication media, usually brought about by the complex interplay of perceived needs, competitive and political pressures, and social and technological innovations' - as defined in Roger Fidler, Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media (London: Pine Forge Press, 1997), pp. 22-23
2. H. Mackay and A. Powell, 'Wales and its media: production, consumption and regulation', Contemporary Wales, 9 (1997), p. 30
3. Although it may be argued that what occurs on the web is not, strictly speaking, either publishing or broadcasting, the terms are used in this paper for reasons of clarity
4. Steve Peak and P. Fisher, The 1998 Media Guide (London: Fourth Estate, 1997), p. 200
5. Fidler, pp. 210-11 and 235
6. H.S.T. Kim, 'Impact of the Internet on journalism', MSc thesis (London: Department of Information Science, City University, 1996), pp. 38 and 45-46
7. Peter Preston, 'The whiff of jamjam tomorrow on the Net', The Observer Business (11 January 1998), p. 5
8. Knut Rorbakken, 'Snapshots from cyberspace - a new media reality', MA thesis (London: Department of Journalism, City University, 1997), p. 32
9. Peak and Fisher, p. 200
10. Jack Schofield, 'How the Web was won', The Guardian Online (19 March 1998), p. 2
11. Michael Bromley and Howard Tumber, 'From Fleet Street to cyberspace: the British popular press in the twentieth century', The European Journal of Communication Research, 22, no. 3 (1997), pp. 66-67
12. Mackay and Powell, p. 31
13. W.S. Williams, 'The death of objectivity', Internet Newsroom, 3, no.7 (1 June 1997), p. 7
14. Kathy Fulton, 'A tour of our uncertain future', Columbia Journalism Review (March/April 1996), http://www.cjr.org/html/96-03-04-tour.html (5 May 1998)
15. G. Harris and D. Spark, Practical Newspaper Reporting (Oxford: Focal Press, 1993, 2nd ed.), pp. 220-221
16. David Nicholas, Peter Williams, Helen Matin and Peter Cole, 'Journalists and the Internet: how they use it, what they think of it', presentation at NetMedia 98, City University, London, UK (3 July 1998), http://www.city.ac.uk/ netmedia98/internet.htm (28 July 1998)
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19. We take 'cool' to mean in this context both fashionable and vagarious, and potentially transformative of the control of the media in favour of the audience
20. Fidler, p. 260
21. Press Gazette, 'Regionals urged to grasp digital television' (3 April 1998), p. 11
22. Rorbakken, p. 33
23. Mark Hardie, Forrester Research, cited K. Wilson, 'The Web gets its skates on', The Guardian Online (5 February 1998), p. 5
24. C. Ianzito, 'It's a job but is it journalism?' Columbia Journalism Review (Nov/Dec 1996), p. 32
25. Michael Bromley and Howard Tumber, 'The first cyberspace election', British Journalism Review, 8, no. 2 (1997), pp. 72-74
26. Howard Tumber and Michael Bromley, 'Virtual soundbites: political communication in cyberspace', Media, Culture and Society, 20, no. 1 (January 1998), p. 164
27. Interview with a BBC manager (11 April 1998)
28. Information from the Periodical Training Council (3 April 1998)
29. John Tulloch, 'The United Kingdom' in Reports on Journalism Education in Europe,edK. Nordenstreng (Tampere: University of Tampere, 1990), pp. 47-54
30. Michael Bromley, 'The end of journalism? Changes in workplace practices in the press and broadcasting in the 1990s' in A Journalism Reader, eds. Michael Bromley and Tom O'Malley (London: Routledge, 1997), p. 339
31. Oliver Boyd-Barrett, 'The politics of socialization: recruitment and training for journalists' in The Sociology of Journalism and the Press, Monograph 29,ed. H. Christian (Keele: Keele University, 1980), p. 308
32. National Council for the Training of Journalists, How Journalists are Trained: The Systems, the Options and the Costs (Epping: NCTJ, 1988), p. 2
33. Interview with NCTJ representative, 9 April 1998
34. Bromley, pp. 338-39. The last figure was supplied by the Newspaper Society in January 1997
35. Peak and Fisher, pp. 284-288
36. Bromley, p. 339
37. Peak and Fisher, p. 278
38. National Council for the Training of Journalists, Training in Journalism, Epping: NCTJ, 1975), pp. 9, passim
39. Angela Phillips and Ivor Gaber, 'The case for media degrees', British Journalism Review, 7, no. 3 (1996), pp. 62-65
40. Anon, UK Press Gazette, 'The media may change, but the journos will stay' (12 June 1995), p. 19
41. Peak and Fisher, p. 168
42. Fidler, pp. 33-37
43. Fidler, pp. 2-9
44. Interview with BBC manager, 5 June 1998
45. Bromley, pp. 343-344
46. Hawkins, cited in Kim, p. 20
47. 'An international string of computer databases linked by the internet that use an information retrieval architecture developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer specialist at the Cern Physics Laboratory in Geneva. The standard relies on the form of information linking known as hypertext or hypermedia, which makes it possible to easily store and retrieve audio and video as well as text, graphics and photos.' Fidler, p. 301
48. See Michael Schudson, Power of News (London: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 1-2