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Linnell surveys the current state of journalism in this chapter. He describes a world engulfed in a tsunami of snapshots, alerts, briefs, tweets, shorts, summaries and posts. Linnell argues that strong story-telling will have an even greater value in the digital age.
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Pink, Daniel H., A Whole New Mind: Why Rightbrainers Will Rule the Future, New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.
Schudson, Michael, The Sociology of News (2nd edn). New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
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Linnell, G. (2014). Storytelling in the Digital Age. In: Potts, J. (eds) The Future of Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440402_9
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