Kosterich, Allie (2022). News nerds. Institutional change in Journalism. Oxford University Press

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Published: Apr 28, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17502/mrcs.v13i1.865
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Periodismo digital, cambio institucional, nerds de las noticias, tecnología y medios, transformación profesional Digital journalism, institutional change, news nerds, technology and media, professional transformation
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João Carlos Sousa
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This review examines Allie Kosterich's book News Nerds: Institutional Change in Journalism by Allie Kosterich, highlighting its contributions to the study of the evolution of journalism in the digital age. In their integration of technical and narrative skills, “news nerds” emerge as essential new agents for this transformation. The review praises the author's theoretical approach and analytical structure, but also points out some shortcomings, such as his overemphasis on high-profile U.S. publications and his scant attention to diverse contexts or to the ethical dilemmas that the digitization of journalism seeks to resolve.

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Sousa, J. C. (2025). Kosterich, Allie (2022). News nerds. Institutional change in Journalism. Oxford University Press. methaodos.Social Science Journal, 13(1), m251301c02. https://doi.org/10.17502/mrcs.v13i1.865
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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025)
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Book reviews
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João Carlos Sousa, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon

Graduated in Sociology (2009) and Master in Sociology: exclusions and social policies (2013) by the University of Beira Interior. Research Fellow (2010-2015) in projects Citizens' Agenda: Journalism and civic participation in the Portuguese media (PTDC/CCI-JOR/098732/2008) and Public and private in mobile communications (QREN) both developed in the LabCom of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of Beira Interior University. Since June 2016 the researcher at OberCom. In 2016-2017 Fellow of Science and Technology at OberCom - Palácio Foz. The same year (November) joined the project Measure Connect Energy Efficiency for All (ADENE), developed at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. Currently attending the PhD Program in Communication Sciences at ISCTE-Institute of the Lisbon University. In this context, in January 2019 started an Individual PhD Scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/136605/2018). Born in the city of Covilhã on May 14, 1982.