About the book

The original image used for the cover is the original cover by the Italian graphic designer Giovanni Pintori who designed the cover of ‘Musica per Parole‘, a promotional record sold with the Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter. The original image is courtesy of Archivio Storico Olivetti.

Digital news production has gained increasing relevance in the last two decades. This book focuses on the affordances of contemporary, accelerated digital news production, proposing a new conception and connection between long-form journalism and archives. This approach is based on a theoretical framework of the contemporary digital experience which is defined as the ”Digital Landscape”.

Moreover, this book focuses on platforms and their practices as influential factors regarding long-form journalism and archival production, distribution and consumption. Assessing the shared features of these two entities – long-form journalism and archives – this book investigates how they can be re-imagined and re-used within the contemporary digital landscape.

Using a combination of multiple approaches, such as digital methods, text analysis as part of critical discourse analysis and semi-structured interviews, this book identifies common traits between long-form journalism and archives. It aims to satisfy the need for novel approaches in the analysis, organization and output of digital news content, identifying novel connections and pathways which can be adopted in order to establish a fuller comprehension of contemporary digital news production.

Book Publisher page: Peter Lang

Curtesy of Peter Lang, you can read and download the introduction to Yesterday’s News: The Future of Long-form Journalism and Archives. For further information on the book, please visit Peter Lang’s website.

Reading the Introduction to Yesterday’s News: The Future of Long-from Journalism and Archives will allow to further comprehend:

a) The book’s framing within digital humanities, at the intersection between digital journalism and platform studies.
b) The multi-method approach used within the book include text analysis as part of critical discourse analysis, case-study, digital methods, data profiling and cleaning and semi-structured interviews.
c) What the book defines as ’digital landscape’, and its main actors individuals, crowds and platforms and the main interactions that take place within it, such as flux and non-creative destruction.
d) The definition and relationship between long-form journalism and archives
e) The two case studies, Snow Fall by The New York Times and An Unbelievable Story of Rape by ProPublica and The Marshall Project
f) The role of time and what is defined as ‘feed fruition’ within the digital landscape
g) The shared traits between long-form journalism and archives, such as their nature as digitised content which is not yet datafied and shares possible novel curation practices.