In a thorough empirical investigation of journalistic practices in different news contexts, 'New Media, Old News' explores how technological, economic and social changes have reconfigured news journalism, and the consequences of these transformations for a vibrant democracy in our digital age.
Some critics believe these technologies keep the public involved in an informed discourse on matters of public importance, but it isn't clear this is happening on a large scale.
This news ethnography brings to bear the overarching value clashes at play in a digital news world. The book argues that emergent news values are reordering the fundamental processes of news production.
In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy.
Watergate forced President Richard M. Nixon to resign from the Presidency, the only President ever to do so. Had he not resigned, he almost certainly would have been forced from office by impeachment. The House of Representatives had ...
Consider, for example, the sense of moral outrage and collective selfreflection that accompanied the failure of local residents to come to Kitty Genovese's aid as she was attacked on a Queens, New York, street in 1964.
It shows the consequences media negativity has on the audience, public discourse, the press and democracy as a whole. The book also explores ways to change old news habits and provides hands-on guidelines on how to do so.
Produced in many languages on every continent, they are re-defining the agenda and telling the story in China's way, with not just news and documentary series but also entertainment.
“A Snapshot of the World at 4 P.M.” New York Times, July 1, 2009. http:// www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/nyregion/02rooms.html?_r=4&scp=1&sq= ... Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives.
Its two founding members were Robert Phillips, formerly head of EMEA at Edelman, based in London, and George Pitcher, a co-founder of the PR company Luther Pendragon in 1992, a former journalist and an ordained Anglican priest.
This book addresses east-west understandings of Arab women as portrayed through translated media.