Digital Convergence in Contemporary Newsrooms

This book explores the dynamic landscape in contemporary newsrooms across three continents by investigating the impact that the processes of searching, processing, and distributing data and information and the use of big data, with secure, automatic, and agile retrieval of information all have in this context. Journalistic organizations have undergone digital transformations, and only those implementing accurate transformations survive. In so doing, the book addresses the fields of e-Communication, Computer Science, and Information Science and other areas of the authors' expertise. The first five chapters focus on technical visits to investigate newsrooms' productive routines and flows in major dailies from Brazil, Costa Rica, and England. The remaining chapters consider that the news production routines are cooperative and distributed and at the same time need to be managed from different perspectives to support the convergence of digital media. Last but not least, the book also identifies an increase in ICT-based tools, with an increasing connection from new media combined with the growing trend of digital economy practices as important factors in the new landscape of digital journalism.

Covers contemporary changes in previous processes that undergo accelerated digital transformation Gives priority which is identified for the use of collaborative systems in virtual newsrooms and also a broad application of social (digital) networks throughout the communication process, enabling innovation in fast-paced collaborative environments Written by experts in the field

Inhalt
Journalistic newsrooms: convergence and Innovation on three continents. A case study on five media organization.- Technological Convergence, the Integration of Media in the Offers, and the Information Workflow of the daily O Globo (Brazil).- Big Data and the Studies of Communication in Brazil Notes on reconfiguring a knowledge field.- Perspectives of Journalists' content production from print newspaper to virtual newsroom 4.0.- Appendix: The MDM Project.