Miller, Lisa C.

Power journalism : computer-assisted reporting / Lisa C. Miller - Fort Worth, Tex. : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1998 - x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Preface. - Ch. 1. Searching, Sorting and Storytelling: What Computer-Assisted Reporting Is All About. - Ch. 2. Journalists In Cyberspace. - Ch. 3. BBS, AOL, And Other Letters Of The Online Alphabet. - Ch. 4. Special Deliveries: Finding People And Stories With Electronic Mail. - Ch. 5. Everybody's Talking: Usenet Newsgroups And Internet Relay Chat. - Ch. 6. Travelling Through Cyperspace: Telnet And FTP. - Ch. 7. Gopher: Menus By The Millions. - Ch. 8. An Information Explosion: The World Wide Web. - Ch. 9. It's Computerized, But It's Not Online, Part 1: Information On CD. - Ch. 10. Finding Meaning With Spreadsheets And database Managers: An Introduction. - Ch. 11. Spreadsheets: By The Numbers. - Ch. 12. Sorting And Matchmaking: Using A Database Management Program To Find Meaning. - Ch. 13. It's Computerized, But It's Not Online, Part II: Information On Floppy Disk Or Tape. - Ch. 14. After Car: Interviewing, Observing, And Telling Readers What It All Means. - 15. Legal And Ethical Questions And Car. - Ch. 16. The Learning Goes On. - Appendix A : World Wide Web Sites. - Appendix B : Exercises. - Appendix C : Society Of Professional Journalists Code Of Ethics. - For Further Reading. - Glossary. - Permissions. - Index.

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Information networks.
Journalism--Data processing.
Reporters and reporting.

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