Online News Stuart Allan In this exciting and timely textbook Stuart Allan provides a wide-ranging analysis of online news. He offers important insights into key debates concerning the ways in which journalism is evolving on the internet, devoting particular attention to the factors influencing its development. Using a diverse range of examples, he shows how the forms, practices and epistemologies of online news are gradually becoming conventionalized, and assesses the implications for journalism's future. The rise of online news is examined with regard to the reporting of a series of major news events. Topics include coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, the September 11 attacks, election campaigns, and the war in Iraq. The emergence of blogging is traced with an eye to its impact on journalism as a profession. The participatory journalism of news sites such as Indymedia, OhmyNews, and Wikinews is explored, as is the citizen Journalist reporting of the South Asian tsunami, London bombings and Hurricane Katrina. In each instance, the uses of new technologies- from digital cameras to mobile telephones and beyond- are shown to shape journalistic innovation, often in surprising ways. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and journalists. Stuart Allan is Professor of Media and journalism Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His previous books include New Culture (Open University Press, 1999; second edition 2004), Media, Risk and Science(Open University Press, 2002), Journalism After September 11 (2002), Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (2004) and Journalism: Critical Issues (Open University Press, 2005).