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Journalism, at the core, is the presentation of news through media. The content of news has not changed much over the last century-politicians, wars, crime, and sports dominate past and present headlines. Yet, the ways in which journalists both gather and disseminate information have been turned on their head. Gone are the days of editors assigning stories to writers, who then research, inquire, and write what they found. Today's journalists are coding, programming, running analytics, and developing apps. These "news nerds" are working in jobs at the intersection of traditional journalist positions and technologically-intensive positions that were once largely separate. Their titles and jobs might differ, but one thing is common: they are using technology differently and the institutionalized view of a professional journalist has changed. Understanding the reasons for that turn, its mechanics, timing, and impact are the goals of this book. News Nerds explores how technological, economic, and societal changes are impacting the institutionalized profession of journalism. Allie Kosterich draws on a mixed-method research design combining interviews with professional journalists, textual analysis of trade press, and social network analysis of journalist career histories. Taken together, these data reveal the ways in which the institution of the profession of journalism is evolving to incorporate new technological skillsets and new routines of production. In telling these stories and sharing these findings, she directly confronts what happens when new skillsets and new ways of understanding and producing news start to collide with the old routines of journalism.

Journalism --- Social aspects. --- Press --- Social aspects --- Reporters and reporting --- Technological innovations. --- Data processing. --- Reporters and reporting.

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Mass media --- Journalism --- Journalists --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Frère, Marie-Soleil --- Frère, Marie-Soleil --- Journalism - Africa --- Journalists - Africa --- Reporters and reporting - Africa --- Reporters and reporting

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News 'fixers' are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists. Sometimes key contributors to bold, original reporting and other times key facilitators of homogeneity and groupthink in the news media, they play the difficult but powerful role of broker between worlds, shaping the creation of knowledge from behind the scenes. In Fixing Stories, Noah Amir Arjomand reflects on the nature of news production and cross-cultural mediation. Based on human stories drawn from three years of field research in Turkey, this book unfolds as a series of narratives of fixers' career trajectories during a period when the international media spotlight shone on Turkey and Syria. From the Syrian Civil War, Gezi Park protest movement, rise of authoritarianism in Turkey and of ISIS in Syria, to the rekindling of conflict in both countries' Kurdish regions and Turkey's 2016 coup attempt, Arjomand brings to light vivid personal accounts and insider perspectives on world-shaking events alongside analysis of the role fixers have played in bringing news of Turkey and Syria to international audiences.

Foreign news. --- Foreign news --- Reporters and reporting --- Newspaper reporting --- Journalism --- Newspapers --- Flow of news, International --- International flow of news --- International news --- News, Foreign --- News flow, International --- World news --- News agencies --- Press

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This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as mental health---simmering across the subcontinent. The chapters fill knowledge gaps, highlight innovations, unpack the complexities surrounding the media ecosystem in times of health crises. They explore, among other issues, the politics of public health communication; infodemics; existential threats to media viability; draconian legislations; threats to journalists/journalism; COVID-related entrepreneurship, marginalization, and more. This is a timely resource for academics, advocacy groups, media practitioners and policy makers working on crises and media reporting, not just in Africa but anywhere in the global South.

Sociology --- Media studies --- Public health & preventive medicine --- Health communication --- COVID-19 --- Political economy of the media --- Pandemics and the media --- Media gagging --- Marginalization discourses --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Regulatory frameworks --- Reporters Without Borders --- Intimidation of journalists --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in mass media.

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This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. It shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the US-led war on terror. The book analyzes the fixer as a role in its relationship with militarization. It is not a coincidence that fixers become valuable to commercial media only during the height of violence or crises. Emerging under conditions of scarcity or war, the value of this role, in turn, is intrinsically tied to the fear of extinction. It is this vulnerability or perceived expendability - imposed by the need to find work - that binds fixers in a symbiotic relationship with global market and global war. This book, then, serves as a vantage point from which one can clearly see the connection between the regional wars and commercial media, as well as local journalists' transformation into daily wage earners in a global media shift toward neoliberalism.

Foreign news --- Foreign correspondents --- War --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. --- Press coverage --- Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism, 2001-2009 --- Global War on Terror, 2001-2009 --- GWOT, 2001-2009 (War on Terrorism) --- Terror War, 2001-2009 --- Terrorism War, 2001-2009 --- War against Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- War on Terror, 2001-2009 --- Military history, Modern --- Terrorism --- World politics --- Afghan War, 2001-2021 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 --- -Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Correspondents, Foreign --- Reporters and reporting --- Flow of news, International --- International flow of news --- International news --- News, Foreign --- News flow, International --- World news --- Journalism --- News agencies --- Press --- Prevention --- -Correspondents, Foreign --- 2001-2009 --- Afghanistan. --- Pakistan.