News Media Innovation Reconsidered

A guide to journalistic ethics for today’s digital technologies With contributions from an international panel of experts on the topic, News Media Innovation Reconsidered offers a guide for the revitalizing of the ethical and civil ideals of journalism. The authors discuss how to energize journalistic practices and products and explore how to harness the power of digital technological innovations such as immersive journalism, the automatization and personalization of news, newsgames, and artificial-intelligence news production. The book presents an innovative framework of “creative reconstruction” and reviews new journalistic concepts, models, initiatives, and practices that clearly demonstrate professional ethics that embrace truth seeking, transparency, fact checking, and accuracy, and other ethical considerations. While the contributors represent numerous countries, many of examples are drawn from the Spanish-speaking media and can serve as models for an international audience. This important book: Explores the impact on the news media from mobile-first, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence-driven platforms Examines the challenges of maintaining journalistic ethics in today’s digital world Demonstrates how to use technology to expose readers to news outside their comfort zones Provides information for discerning truth from fake news Written for researchers, students in journalism and communication programs, New Media Innovation Reconsidered offers a much-needed guide for recreating journalistic ethics in our digital age.

A guide to journalistic ethics for today’s digital technologies With contributions from an international panel of experts on the topic, News Media Innovation Reconsidered offers a guide for the revitalizing of the ethical and civil ideals of journalism. The authors discuss how to energize journalistic practices and products and explore how to harness the power of digital technological innovations such as immersive journalism, the automatization and personalization of news, newsgames, and artificial-intelligence news production. The book presents an innovative framework of “creative reconstruction” and reviews new journalistic concepts, models, initiatives, and practices that clearly demonstrate professional ethics that embrace truth seeking, transparency, fact checking, and accuracy, and other ethical considerations. While the contributors represent numerous countries, many of examples are drawn from the Spanish-speaking media and can serve as models for an international audience. This important book: Explores the impact on the news media from mobile-first, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence-driven platforms Examines the challenges of maintaining journalistic ethics in today’s digital world Demonstrates how to use technology to expose readers to news outside their comfort zones Provides information for discerning truth from fake news Written for researchers, students in journalism and communication programs, New Media Innovation Reconsidered offers a much-needed guide for recreating journalistic ethics in our digital age.

This book offers a timely insight into how the news media have adapted to the digital transformation of public communication infrastructure. Providing a conceptual roadmap to understanding the disruptive, innovative impact of digital networked journalism in the 21st century, the author critically examines how and to what extent news media around the world have engaged in digital adaptation. Making use of data from news media content production and distribution both off- and online, as well as user and financial data from the U.S. and internationally, the book traces how the news media embraced and reacted to key developments such as the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 and the launch of Google in 1998, Facebook in 2004, and the Apple iPhone in 2009. The author also highlights innovative organizations that have sought to reimagine news media that are optimized for digital, online, and mobile media of the 21st century, demonstrating how these groups have been able to stay better engaged with the public. Disruption and Digital Journalism is recommended reading for all academics and scholars with an interest in media, digital journalism studies, and technological innovation.

This collection of original essays interrogates the 'crisis of journalism' narrative from a dramatically different perspective.

Change management is not just affected globally by environmental and social conditions, including political and technological changes, but also through convergence, which helps conceptualize change over the past decades. The media industry, in particular, is being challenged by the rise of social media, the crisis of refinancing especially for quality news media, the ‘misinformation epidemic’, and the changing role of legacy media. The evolving nature of media usage and communication, the rise of produsage and influencers, and intermediaries and their personalized algorithmic content are also factors that impact the industry, along with data privacy and privacy management, and the “new responsibilities” of companies such as sustainability, agility and resilience, etc. This book focuses on permanent change management in the media and related industries. It provides insights into the most common and crucial phenomena of media and change management in general, while also revealing some more specific issues brought about by technical and social innovations. The authors expand the meaning of media management beyond the management functions within the industry to include the management of different media. The book serves as a useful guide for researchers, students, and practitioners alike, as they are all affected by change processes.

This volume explores the rise of immersive technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 videos in the newsroom and how they affect newsmaking for journalists, news sources, and audiences. As these technologies offer journalists new and exciting opportunities to connect more deeply, emotionally, and presently with their audience, they also introduce unique ethical and practical questions concerning the collection and use of biometric, sensory, and metadata. Contributors analyze this shift from passive consumption to active engagement in order to investigate the positive and negative impacts that immersive technologies can have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection. Ultimately, this volume highlights both the potential for these technologies to redefine the relationship between news producers and consumers and the potential challenges their integration may pose. Scholars of journalism, communication, science & technology studies, and digital media will find this book particularly useful.

There are a number of books on media innovation. Most of them are no more than theories or insights obtained from other books or ideas. What we need are not only insights but also the practices required to change news media in the real market. In 2009 I founded the news media outlet Wikitree in Korea. Wikitree was designed as a social-network news service, although at that time, we had never even heard of the word 'social network.' It grew very fast after linking Twitter and Facebook to one of the most influential internet news services in Korea. As of now, its monthly pageview is over 220 million, according to Google Analytics. I wrote the actual stories and insights longing for success in news media innovation. Hopefully, this book will help media workers for traditional newspapers or broadcasting services to overcome the obstacles that have held them back for so long. [Table of Content] 1. Media is gone - All the media walls are torn down - Rising "smart readers" - Everyone acts as the media in the era of social networks - Perfect storm coming - Create space for collective intelligence 2. What in the world is SNS? - Media industry back to word-of-mouth era - Highly networked society intertwined by smart devices - Using social networks in the right way - Pop idols bypass TV - Girls' Generation in media 3. New Understandings - News without a stream dies - It's not "stock" but "flow" - Cyber personality activates on social networks - Truth in the hands of many - Business opportunities created in "social ecology" - Content should "flow" on social networks - "Social ad" on "social stream" - Something new to me is news to others - Daily stories become news - Readers consume fun and value 4. Transition to Social Media - Anyone can see, hear, and do news - Status of a journalist in the era of social networks - A fierce battle for real-time news - The emergence of MoneyToday - Real-time internet newspapers become old media - Whether it is "social media" or not - New styles of news on social networks - Content value goes beyond format - Grab new opportunities on social networks 5. News media faces a sea change - Media ownership is being open to individuals - Twitter captures a photo of Haeundae fire scene - Social news on KTX failure gets faster than internal report - I don't want news; I want the whole statement - Important news comes to readers - Please forget about the papers! - Broadcasting companies keep locking content (More details coming at 'Look inside') [About the Author] Huney Kong currently - CEO / Publisher, Social News Co., Ltd / Wikitree, the most influential internet news service in Korea - Adjunct Professor, Department of Media Arts & Sciences, Korea National Open University former - CEO, Nexus Investment Co., Ltd, KOSDAQ listed venture capital - Chief Information Officer, MoneyToday, the first online financial news service in Korea - Washington Correspondent, The Chunchu News Syndicate by the five major local newspapers in Korea - Reporter, Editor-in-chief, The Kwangju Ilbo Daily News academics - Master of Information Management and Systems, School of Information, UC Berkeley - Trained in Faculty of Journalism, Moscow National University - Master of Politics, Department of International Relations, Seoul National University - Bachelor of International Politics, Department of International Relations, Seoul National University books -Media Innovation and News Storytelling (2019) - SNS Likes Stories (2017) - Do Politics by Social Networks (2015) - Watch, Listen, and Do News (2010) - Digital News Handbook (2000) All books above published in Korean

This book presents a comprehensive compilation of the latest research into digital disruption in the media industry. The perspectives are differentiated into innovation triggers in the media industry stemming from the economy, society and technology. In addition, the book highlights selected case studies exploring new media actors and usage, innovation and disruption in media organizations, emerging media platforms and channels, as well as innovative media topics and events. The book is intended for researchers in communication sciences and media research, as well as media practitioners who want to understand the causes and effects of digital transformation in the media industry.