Before news organizations began putting their content online, people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustomed to instant access to a growing supply of constantly updated stories on the Web. This change in the amount of news available as well as how we consume it has been coupled with an unexpected development in editorial labor: rival news organizations can now keep tabs on the competition and imitate them, resulting in a decrease in the diversity of the news. Peeking inside the newsrooms where journalists create stories and the work settings where the public reads them, Pablo J. Boczkowski reveals why journalists contribute to the growing similarity of news - even though they dislike it - and why consumers acquiesce to a media system they find increasingly dissatisfying. Comparing and contrasting two newspapers in Buenos Aires with similar developments in the United States, "News at Work" offers an enlightening perspective on living in a world with more information but less news.

作者：帕布魯·博奇科夫斯基（Pablo J. Boczkowski）：美國西北大學傳播學係教授，阿根廷媒體和社會研究中心聯閤主任。他在美國康奈爾大學獲得科學與技術研究博士學位，曾在麻省理工學院任教。他的研究領域是數字文化的機製研究，近年來主要從比較的視角對阿根廷、芬蘭、以色列、日本和美國的新聞消費、娛樂與技術進行研究。他已經齣版瞭三本專著，發錶三十餘篇學術文章。《工作中的新聞：信息充裕時代的相互模仿》曾獲2011年美國社會學學會傳播與信息技術分會最佳書籍奬。

譯者：周亭：中國傳媒大學教授、博士生導師，政府與公共事務學院副院長。在復旦大學新聞學院獲得博士學位，曾在香港城市大學、颱灣政治大學、美國西北大學訪學。主要研究領域是媒介生産研究、國際傳播、大數據輿情研究。