Book Description
Public trust in the once powerful institutions of the News Establishment is declining. Sharing, curating and producing news via social media channels may offer an alternative, if the difficult process of verification can be mastered by social journalists operating outside of the newsroom. Navigating Social Journalism examines the importance of digital media literacy and how we should all be students of the media. Author Martin Hirst emphasizes the responsibility that individuals should take when consuming the massive amounts of media we encounter on a daily basis. This includes information we gather from online media, streaming, podcasts, social media and other formats. The tools found here will help students critically evaluate any incoming media and, in turn, produce their own media with their own message. This book aims both to help readers understand the current state of news media through theory and provide practical techniques and skills to partake in constructive social journalism.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Prologue

The democratic deficit; the News Establishment and Social Journalism
Journalism and the Internet of Things
Journalism in a "post-truth" world
The political economy of fake news
Can journalism be saved?
Social journalism and the News Establishment
Social Journalism reimagined
The ethical and legal principles of social journalism
Research and Verification
How to do social journalism
Writing social journalism
The future of journalism is already here
Epilogue