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Essential books for online journalism

Thanks to Steve Yelvington and Mindy McAdams for endorsing Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive in the comments section of a recent post on Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog. The post asked Are there really only six essential books on online journalism? but didn’t include Journalism 2.0 as one of them. Steve and Mindy suggested it be included and, naturally, I happen to agree.

The list - and comments - are worth visiting however. My own take on the list is that Dan Gillmor’s We The Media is the most essential book on the list, and that journalists looking for online guidance in a book should expand their view to include essential titles from the new digital economy like Chris Anderson’s Long Tail and Wikinomics. 

I especially like the update found on this post which directs readers to a blog post collecting the most influential blog posts about online journalism.

Posted by MarkBriggs on Thursday, November 08, 2007
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