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Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award sponsored by the International Communication Association (ICA) , Co-winner of the 2005 Book of the Year Award presented by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association and Co-winner of the 2004 Book Award presented by the Organizational Communication Division…

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This classic text that provides one of the first sustained accounts of how the print media transitioned to the online environment during the late-twentieth century.

Boczkowski focuses on three newsrooms and presents a compelling story of change, that looks more like an evolution than a revolution. Skillfully combining detailed ethnographic accounts with deep archival research, it remains a must-read when seeking to understand the relationship between news and technology. 

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