• Networked, interactive media are reframing organizational use and diffusion of new tech; diffusion of audiotext/1-900 services, internet as mass medium, and computer-mediated collaboration drive adoption and redesign of work practices [2], [1], [4], [15], [9].

• The era is framed by theories of media as shapers of modern social context, globalization, and publicness; chapters synthesize mediation, global flows, and the transformation of visibility [3], [19], [17], [14], [10].

• Audience agency and interactivity emerge as central to news ecosystems, with viewer mail interactivity, audience scope, uses and gratifications studies, and community-news prototypes challenging traditional gatekeeping [5], [7], [20], [12].

• Industry dynamics show managerial and marketing logics reshaping newsrooms and programs, with MBAs inside newsroom strategy, consumer reality constructions, rapid program transitions, and new marketing-driven paradigms [12], [6], [8], [13].

• Digital production and publishing practices redefine journalism training, workflow, and output, with digital imaging skills, electronic publishing futures, and new media production languages [18], [11], [16], [17].