＊本书获得 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Tankard Book Award
 
这是一本关于《纽约时报》的人种学（关于人类以及文化的学习）的书，带着读者进入美国，也或许全世界，最权威的报纸，以及他们如何看待新闻业所面临的数位时代。这是第一本这么深入探讨《纽约时报》的书，作者花了好几个月在他们的新闻编辑室里观察员工们的交谈、会议以及工作模样。我们可以体验到他们的头版头条会议、一篇报导如何从头到尾完成、他们如何制作那些充满创意以及雄心的多媒体项目以及社交媒体在编辑室里如何带来某些道德性的困境。现在的社会需要24小时的最新新闻，而这跟历史上传统报纸的运作非常不一样——《纽约时报》又是如何挑战这个需求呢？
 
这本书主要想探讨的就是数字新闻与传统新闻之间的价值冲突。现代读者所渴望的紧急、24/7新闻报导将新闻业最基本的制作过程完全颠覆了。现在人们最在乎的就是最快、最先、最能够吸引眼球的头条，这也代表了记者们也在面临全新的一种压力以及不安。他们没有任何截稿期限，因为每一秒都是他们截稿的期限，什么东西都要快快快！现在的读者也渴望互动，越来越多人是在屏幕上看新闻，需要多媒体以及更多链接来满足他们的需求。于是，想《纽约时报》这样传统的编辑室也满满开始出现许多不同的多媒体专家，他们必须并肩跟传统报纸记者一起合作创造新闻。而现在的社交媒体也让读者与媒体之间搭上了直接的互动方式，许多商业头脑希望借此做广告、行销、推销等等，但传统媒体记者对此也拥有道德上的反对意见。
 
关于作者：
Nikki Usher是美国 George Washington University媒体与公共事务学院的副教授。
 
好评：
“Nikki Usher’s portrait of journalistic work at one of the leading news organizations in the world is a fascinating window into a social field caught between the editorial values of print journalism and their emergent counterparts in the digital space. This book will greatly appeal to journalists and scholars alike.”
— Pablo J. Boczkowski, author of The News Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge
 
“As the embodiment of the journalism profession, The New York Times remains a worthy object of study, but few have had the access necessary for this kind of deep newsroom ethnography. Nikki Usher shows in rich and readable detail what happens when a traditional and powerful institution must adapt to the inescapable digital world.”
— Stephen D. Reese, Jesse H. Jones Professor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
 
“This book is illuminating and memorable, a minutely observed account of The New York Timesreshaping itself in the digital age. It is immersion reportage and also a history, a snapshot of 2010. It shows a great newspaper become a print-to-Web teenager alternatively awkward, embarrassed, nuttily ambitious, idealistic, mistaken—and, despite all, true to itself.”
— Michael Schudson, Columbia University
 
 
"This is a terrific, troubling backstage look at the news cycle of web and print at the Times. Usher (media, George Washington Univ.) writes well and has impeccable anthropological skills... Highly recommended."--Choice
 
"Making News is an academic page-turner of sorts, offering unique insight into one the world’s most renowned quality newspapers. The writing is clear and vigorous, and she offers intriguing analyses of digital shifts in the field that are still taking place even now."
--Maria Theresa Konow-Lund, Journal of Media Innovations
 
"Making News at the New York Times offers a refreshing take on a 163-year-old institution by examining its evolutionary struggle to survive in the age of Twitter, Facebook, and paywalls. This in-depth report on the frantic routines of its staff...makes for a compelling read."
--Eric Sandstrom, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly