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We investigate the challenges, adaptations, and emerging practices in the digital news industry and how these change the position of journalism in society.
RIDING THE NEW WAVE OF JOURNALISM RESEARCH
Legitimising change: Digital journalism discourse and social media communication
Researchers: Helen Sissons and Philippa Smith
CENTRALISED AND DIGITALLY DISRUPTED
An ethnographic view of local journalism in New Zealand
Researcher: Helen Sissons
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USER-GENERATED CONTENT IN TELEVISION NEWS
How are journalists responding to the challenge of harnessing user-generated video for TV news?
Researcher: Danni Mulrennan
TECHNOLOGIES R US: ADAPT OR DIE
The challenges facing the digital journalist.
SOUNDING OFF OR SOUNDING BOARD?
The comments sections of news websites serve as interactive spaces.
Researchers: Helen Sissons and Philippa Smith ​
WRITING FOR NEWS WEBSITES
In H. Grant (2017), Intro: A beginner's guide to journalism in 21st-century Aotearoa New Zealand​
Researchers: Helen Sissons and Danni Mulrennan​
SOCIAL MEDIA AND A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
How did a leading newspaper respond to a grave journalistic error?
Researchers: Philippa Smith and Helen Sissons ​
