Out of print journalism and the business of news in the digital age

" Traditional newspapers are under threat. The emergence of citizen journalism, collaborative news websites and freebie news-sheets -- coupled with a catastrophic drop in ad revenue -- has pushed many to the brink. Papers around the world are cutting copy, editions and staff, moving online or closin...

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Main Author: Brock, George, 1951-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London Philadelphia Kogan Page Limited, 2013.
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505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: 01.Communicating whatever we please -- Messy, unethical and opinionated origins -- Select and noteworthy happenings -- An explosion of opinion -- Playing with fire -- `Bible, ax and newspapers' -- A brief flowering -- The world's great informer -- Every species of intelligence -- 02.Furnishing the world with a new set of nerves -- A great moral organ -- The true Church of England -- The Steam Intellect Society -- We are all learning to move together -- A vast agora -- I order five virgins -- The few dozen lines of drivel -- A press typhoon -- The waning power of the harlot -- 03.The gilded age -- A fluid mass -- The brute force of monopoly -- Sorrow, sorrow, ever more -- A well-conducted press -- So will it be goodbye to Fleet Street?' -- I really loathe people with power -- Deregulation -- Boom and decline -- Owners, news and celebrity -- 04.The engine of opportunity -- Chain reaction -- Utopia or dystopia? -- 
505 0 |a Contents note continued: What the internet does to the business of news -- 05.Rethinking journalism again -- Complexity -- Frontiers fade and vanish -- Ink marks on squashed trees -- Comparison and choice -- The downside risks of choice -- Authority -- Manipulation -- Objectivity under strain -- The advantages and drawbacks of institutions -- The management of abundance -- New media and change: a case study -- Conclusion -- 06.The business model crumbles -- Over a cliff -- Print is not dead -- Palliative care for print -- Flipping to digital -- Making people pay: walls and meters -- The demand for news -- What we don't know about online news -- 07.Credibility crumbles -- Newsroom culture -- Operation Motorman -- Phone hacking -- `Quality' and `seriousness' -- Trust and authority -- A spell is broken -- 08.The Leveson judgement -- Diagnosis -- Prescription -- A third way -- Regulation's future -- Plurality -- 09.Throwing spaghetti at the wall -- Four core tasks -- 
505 0 |a Contents note continued: We were having journalistic moments! -- Error is useful -- 10.Clues to the future -- Business models -- From the ashes of dead trees. 
520 |a " Traditional newspapers are under threat. The emergence of citizen journalism, collaborative news websites and freebie news-sheets -- coupled with a catastrophic drop in ad revenue -- has pushed many to the brink. Papers around the world are cutting copy, editions and staff, moving online or closing down. Out of Print explores how the collision of technology, economics and social forces has thrown news, newspapers and journalism into crisis. Covers key issues such as: the increased competition from expansive radio and 24 hour television news channels; the emergence of free "Metro" papers; the delivery of news services on billboards, podcasts and mobile; the development of online editions, as well as the burgeoning of blogs, citizen journalists and User Generated Content. Incisive and authoritative, Out of Print analyzes the role and influence of newspapers in the digital age and asks whether they can survive and, if so, how"-- 
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