The American newspaper industry is in the middle of the most momentous change in its entire three-hundred-year history. A generation of relentless "corporatization" has resulted in a furious, unprecedented blitz of buying, selling, and consolidation of newspapers -- affecting both the mightiest dailies and the humblest weeklies. Accompanying this corporate fury has come dramatic -- and drastic -- change in reporting and coverage of all kinds. Concerned that this phenomenon was going largely unreported -- and, therefore, unquestioned -- Gene Roberts, legendary reporter and editor, decided to...
The American newspaper industry is in the middle of the most momentous change in its entire three-hundred-year history. A generation of relentless "co...
Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Gene Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review/, published by the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, asking the crucial question: Are American communities - in the very middle of the so-called information explosion - in danger of becoming less informed than ever?
Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Gene Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review/...
