Out of print : journalism and the business of news in the digital age
Summary
" 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... Full description
- 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.