Beyond News: The Future of Journalism

ISBN-13: 9780231159388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 264 str.

Stephens

Opis

For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devices--fast, abundant, and mostly free--that era is ending. Our best journalists, Mitchell Stephens argues, instead must offer original, challenging perspectives--not just slightly more thorough accounts of widely reported events. His book proposes a new standard: "wisdom journalism," an amalgam of the more rarified forms of reporting--exclusive, enterprising, investigative--and informed, insightful, interpretive, explanatory, even opinionated takes on current events.

This book features an original, sometimes critical examination of contemporary journalism, both on- and offline, and it finds inspiration for a more ambitious and effective understanding of journalism in examples from twenty-first-century articles and blogs, as well as in a selection of outstanding twentieth-century journalism and Benjamin Franklin's eighteenth-century writings. Most attempts to deal with journalism's current crisis emphasize technology. Stephens emphasizes mindsets and the need to rethink what journalism has been and might become.

Recenzje

"Beyond News does an excellent job of reaching back into the past to find models for future journalism." Evan Cornog, co-editor Columbia Journalism Review Press, Dean of the School of Communication at Hofstra University

O autorze

Mitchell Stephens is a professor of journalism at New York Universitys Arthur L. Carter Institute. His books include A History of News, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word; Broadcast News; and Writing and Reporting the News. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Much of the research for this book was completed while Stephens was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvards Kennedy School.