‘Books’ Archive

Recommended Reading: Multimedia Journal

I recently picked up a copy of Multimedia Journal by Richard Koci Hernandez. The book came out in 2008, but I couldn’t find a review of it, so I thought I’d write about it here. Multimedia Journal is not the typical online journalism book. It is only 60 pages long, measures 7” x 7”, and [...]

Do We Need a New Journalism Vocabulary?

Recently, I’ve encountered some convincing arguments that we may need an entirely new language for understanding and practicing journalism. A friend recommended I read a book called  The Little Book of Contemplative Photography by  Howard Zehr, a professor and documentary photographer who contends that the words and metaphors of photography – “taking a picture,” “shooting,” [...]

Not How to Write, But Why

I’m finally reading The Soloist by Steve Lopez. I’ll see the movie when I’m done with the book. On p. 51, Lopez comments about his process of becoming a columnist: I struggled with my first columns [at the Oakland Tribune], just as I did after moving on to the San Jose Mercury News and the [...]

My Online Journalism Summer Reading List

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis Planet Google by Randall Stross Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World by Charlie Beckett