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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 c...

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Main Author: Brock, George, 1951-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: London Philadelphia Kogan Page Limited, 2013.
Subjects:
Newspaper publishing > Great Britain > Finance.
Newspaper publishing > United States > Finance.
Newspaper publishing > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Newspaper publishing > Economic aspects > United States.
Online journalism > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Online journalism > Economic aspects > United States.
Press > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Press > Economic aspects > United States.
Digital media > Economic aspects > Great Britain.
Digital media > Economic aspects > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 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?
  • 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
  • Contents note continued: We were having journalistic moments!
  • Error is useful
  • 10.Clues to the future
  • Business models
  • From the ashes of dead trees.

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