“News at Work is a brilliantly creative and much anticipated study of the new world of news. Boczkowski takes us on a far-ranging exploration—from the newsroom to the business office, the reporter’s cubicle to the reader’s desktop—on which we get a panoramic view of the links between the production, distribution, and consumption of digital media. Discovering that both online news companies and, increasingly, print papers emulate each other, he takes a close look at the dynamics of imitation, explicating the imitative life cycle through rich accounts of news production, use of technology, and news consumption. Boczkowski already has a reputation for rigorous scholarship; this book is better than anything he has published to date.”

Eric Klinenberg, New York University

“In a world of increasing abundance of information and increasing imitation, Pablo Boczkowski offers something different—a novel, parsimonious explanation for why news stories often look the same across many outlets. Using qualitative and quantitative analysis of the workplace worlds of both journalists and readers, he convincingly describes how the Internet can turn breaking news into a homogenized commodity.”

James Hamilton, Duke University

“News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.”

Walter W. Powell, Stanford University

"News at Work constitutes an exceptionally ambitious study into different dimensions of news, analyzing its priduction processes, the content created, and the consumption patterns. . . . [this] is a rigorous exploration on the dynamics at play between the production, distribution, and use of digital media. . . . [that] enriches scholarship on contemporary news work, and is worth reading for both scholars and practitioners of media management."

Oscar Westlund | International Journal on Media Management