University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Professor of Journalism Mindy McAdams has written a chapter on Multimedia Journalism for a new book “Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.” The book is edited by Lawrie Zion, associate professor, La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and David Craig, a professor and associate dean at the University of Oklahoma.

In the book, a team of internationally diverse authors explore emerging best practices in journalism, ranging from transparency and verification to aggregation, collaboration, live blogging, tweeting and the challenges of digital narratives.

McAdams, who also holds the Knight Chair in Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process, has been studying the evolution of multimedia journalism for 15 years, since the earliest stories built with Adobe Flash appeared on the Web. She is the author of “Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages,” published in 2005. She joined the UF faculty in 1999.

Before moving to Florida, McAdams worked on the Metro desk at The Washington Post and at TIME magazine in New York. In 1994, she was the first content developer at Digital Ink, The Washington Post’s first online newspaper. In the mid-1980s she was a business editor and reporter covering personal computers, and earlier, a copy editor at Dell Publishing in New York.

Find details on the new book at: “Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.”

Posted: October 6, 2014
Category: College News, Faculty Bylines, The College in the News
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