Book Review: The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era
Author: Dominic Boyer Publisher: Cornell University Press – 213 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar I sometimes lament that these days the average news writer simple rewrites a press release and passes it on to the editor as simply his or her own, attaching a name, to get credit as a bylined story. Often, I read the press release (and I get a lot of those flooding my Inbox nowadays) and compare it with a “news story” appearing in a reputable newspaper or news site, and except for a little bit of a rewrite, the two items are essentially...
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