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：帕布鲁·博奇科夫斯基（Pablo J. Boczkowski）：美国西北大学传播学系教授，阿根廷媒体和社会研究中心联合主任。他在美国康奈尔大学获得科学与技术研究博士学位，曾在麻省理工学院任教。他的研究领域是数字文化的机制研究，近年来主要从比较的视角对阿根廷、芬兰、以色列、日本和美国的新闻消费、娱乐与技术进行研究。他已经出版了三本专著，发表三十余篇学术文章。《工作中的新闻：信息充裕时代的相互模仿》曾获2011年美国社会学学会传播与信息技术分会最佳书籍奖。

译者：周亭：中国传媒大学教授、博士生导师，政府与公共事务学院副院长。在复旦大学新闻学院获得博士学位，曾在香港城市大学、台湾政治大学、美国西北大学访学。主要研究领域是媒介生产研究、国际传播、大数据舆情研究。