What's Next?
Subtitle: the Problems and Prospects of Journalism
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781351299367
Subjects: Journalism; Electronic newspapers; Electronic news gathering; Journalisme; Journaux électroniques; Journalisme électronique
Description: "The future of journalism isn't what it used to be. As recently as the mid-1960s, few would have predicted the shocks and transformations that have swept through the news business in the last three decades: the deaths of many afternoon newspapers, the emergence of television as people's primary news source and the quicksilver combinations of cable television, VCRs and the Internet that have changed our ways of reading, seeing, and listening. The essays in this volume seek to illuminate the future prospects of journalism. Mindful that grandiose predictions of the world of tomorrow tend to be the fantasies and phobias of the present written large-in the 1930s and 1940s magazines such as Scribner's, Barron's, and Collier's forecast that one day we would have an airplane in every garage-the authors of What's Next? have taken a more careful view. The writers start with what they know-the trends that they see in journalism today-and ask where will they take us in the foreseeable future. For some media, such as newspapers, the visible horizon is decades away. For others, particularly anything involving the Internet, responsible forecasts can look ahead only for a matter of years. Where the likely destinations of present trends are not entirely clear, the authors have tried to pose the kinds of questions that they believe people will have to address in years to come. While being mindful of the tremendous influence of technology, one must remember that computers, punditry, or market share will not ordain the future of journalism. Rather, it will be determined by the sum of countless actions taken by journalists and other media professionals. These essays, with their hopes and fears, cautions and enthusiasms, questions and answers, are an effort to create the best possible future for journalism. This volume will be of interest to media professionals, academics and others with an interest in the future of journalism."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part Part I: Futures --; title: chapter 1 Letter from the Future--I  -- Elizabeth Weise; title: chapter 2 Letter from the Future--II  -- Geneva Overholser; title: chapter 3 The Future Is the Net  -- Jon Katz; title: chapter 4 Lawyers, Voyeurs and Vigilantes  -- James W. Carey; title: part Part II: Who? --; title: chapter 5 Who Will Be Journalists in the Next Century?  -- David Weaver; title: chapter 6 Who's a Journalist?--I --; title: chapter 7 Who's a Journalist?--II --; title: part Part III: What? --; title: chapter 6 Magazines --; title: chapter 7 Network and Cable TV --; title: chapter 8 Newspapers --; title: part Part IV: When? --; title: chapter 9 What's the Rush? --; title: part Part V: Where? --; title: chapter 10 Business News and International Reporting --; title: chapter 11 New Wars, New Correspondents --; title: chapter 12 A Web of Sound --; title: part Part VI: Why? --; title: chapter 13 New News, New Ideas --; title: chapter 14 Gnats Chasing an Elephant --; title: chapter 15 The Bumpy Road of Regulation --; title: part Part VII: Review Essay --; title: chapter 16 Peering Forward