Can journalism be saved?
Subtitle: rediscovering America's appetite for news
By: Rachel Davis Mersey
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780313392085; 9780313392092
Subjects: Journalism; Journalists; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Journalism and democracy are dead. A brave new world of journalism; title: From whence journalists came; title: The individual is very much alive. Audience needs and actions; title: Why the audience does what it does; title: The audience already has control; title: A new model of journalism is born. A new framework; title: Paying for it all; title: Journalism is spelled with an "I".