Abstract
This chapter begins by establishing definitions of ‘journalism’, ‘journalist’ and ‘digital journalism’. We look at a handful of popular journalistic genres. We then move on to examine Sue Robinson’s model of ‘journalism as process’.
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The concept of ‘public interest’ is discussed at greater length in Chapter 10
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Farrago is the student magazine at the University of Melbourne; Catalyst is the student magazine at RMIT University.
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Thompson, J.D., Weldon, J. (2022). Digital Journalism. In: Content Production for Digital Media. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9686-2_3
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