ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the important distinction between the news reporting and comment areas that are generally clearly delineated within a newspaper pages. In theory, the reader has always been the most important person in a newspaper reporters working life. Former newspaperman turned digital journalism guru Jeff Jarvis has another way of thinking about this. Segel and Heer analyse some interesting examples of digital storytelling forms in their research on narrative visualisations. An extension to the traditional blog is the liveblog, a stream of posts that update readers on a breaking story or an ongoing event on a minute by minute basis. Facebook continues to work quite hard to find ways of allowing journalists and news publishers to integrate their social media strategies with their main digital publishing operations. Journalists have been pretty quick to recognise twitters value for newsgathering and for the digital distribution of their work.
