Bibliograph

Can journalism be saved?, rediscovering America's appetite for news, Rachel Davis Mersey

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Can journalism be saved?, rediscovering America's appetite for news, Rachel Davis Mersey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-156) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Can journalism be saved?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

593629158

Responsibility statement

Rachel Davis Mersey

Sub title

rediscovering America's appetite for news

Summary

This book reviews the complicated challenge facing journalism, tracing its 19th-century community-oriented origins and documenting the vast expansion of the news business via blogs and other Internet-enabled outlets, user-generated content, and news-like alternatives. The author argues that a radical shift in mindset -- striving to meet each individual's demands for what he wants to know -- will be necessary to save journalism

Table Of Contents

Journalism and democracy are dead. A brave new world of journalism -- From whence journalists came -- The individual is very much alive. Audience needs and actions -- Why the audience does what it does -- The audience already has control -- A new model of journalism is born. A new framework -- Paying for it all -- Journalism is spelled with an "I"

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