Saving the media
Subtitle: capitalism, crowdfunding, and democracy
By: Julia Cage ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Contributors: Goldhammer, Arthur, translator
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780674659759
Subjects: Economic aspects; Mass media
Work titles: Sauver les médias
Description: "The media are in crisis. Not only the print press but the entire news production chain. Faced with growing competition and inexorably declining advertising revenue, newspapers, radio and TV news operations, and pure Internet players are all in search of a new model. Based on an innovative study of the media in Europe and the United States, this book proposes a new business model, the nonprofit media organization, midway between a foundation and a joint-stock company. This new model would encourage the development of media organizations independent of outside shareholders, advertisers, and government but dependent on their readers, employees, and Internet users. It is a business model designed to meet the challenges of the digital revolution and the realities of the twenty-first century. A debate has begun in which the stakes are nothing less than the future of democracy."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "First published as Sauver les medias: capitalisme, financement participatif et democratie (c) Editions du Seuil et La Republique des Idees, 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: For a new form of governance; title: The information age?; title: The end of illusions; title: A new model for the twenty-first century; title: Conclusion: Capitalism and democracy.