This book explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBCs coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other conflicts. He argues that the BBCs practices and values are fundamentally evolving in response to the challenges of immediate digital publication. Ongoing challenges for journalism in the online media environment are identified: maintaining impartiality in the face of calls for more open personal journalism; ensuring accuracy when the power of the "former audience" allows news to break at speed; and overcoming the limits of the scale of the BBCs news operation in order to meet the demands to present news as conversation.
While the focus of the book is on the BBCs coverage of war and terrorism, the conclusions are more widely relevant to the evolving practice of journalism at traditional media organizations as they grapple with a revolution in publication.
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"This book offers a rare insight into the processes of negotiation within a globally renowned news organisation as it seeks to rethink editorial roles and rules for a networked society." -- Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia, Canada
Introduction: The Impact of Blogging on the BBCs Coverage of War and
Terrorism
1. The "War and Terror" Blogosphere
2. Blogs: "Rumour, Prejudice
and Gossip" or "Standard" BBC Source?
3. Reporting Conflict from News Needles
in Digital Haystacks
4. Information Overload, the 24/7 News Cycle and the
Turn to Twitter
5. "Outside the BBC Universe? Blogging at the BBC
6. "Can
You Teach Granddad How to Dance?"Involving the Audience on BBC Programme
Blogs
7. "Live Blogging" Terror: The BBCs Coverage of the Attacks on Mumbai
8. Reporting Conflict: War in Gaza and the Limits of the News Revolution.
Conclusion: The Two Faces of Janus: The Future of Journalism
Daniel Bennett is currently an independent scholar and author of the blogs Mediating Conflict and Reporting War (The Frontline Club).