The Future of news
Subtitle: television-newspapers-wire services-newsmagazines
By: edited by Philip S. Cook, Douglas Gomery, Lawrence W. Lichty.
Contributors: Cook, Philip S.; Gomery, Douglas.; Lichty, Lawrence Wilson.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Electronic news gathering -- United States -- History -- 20th century; News agencies -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cable television -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: Will shrinking budgets and growing competition force network television news to compromise quality? Can big-city newspapers improve circulation in the audiences advertisers want to reach? Will the wire services diversify into other areas of communications technology? What changes lie ahead for national newsmagazines? In The Future of News, top experts offer a probing analysis of the news business today and its place in American culture tomorrow.

Charting the past decade's media trends, the authors show how an increasing segment of the population is rejecting broadly targeted media "packages" in favor of more focused, specialized information. Television network news producers, for example, face a growing viewer preference for cable news services, attention-grabbing local news programs, and lurid "infotainment" shows often broadcast by the networks' own affiliates. At the same time, urban newspapers and national newsmagazines are losing readers--and revenues--despite increased news and feature coverage and frequent graphic "makeovers." And the nation's wire services also face an uncertain future.

Analyzing these and other trends, The Future of News offers a thoughtful and provocative preview of the media's role in the twenty-first century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tables
pagenum: ix; title: Figures
pagenum: xi; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xiii; title: Introduction
pagenum: xv; label: I
title: Television; label: 1
title: More Is Less / Lawrence W. Lichty and Douglas Gomery
pagenum: 3; title: Commentary / Barbara Cohen
pagenum: 34; title: Commentary / Richard Richter
pagenum: 37; label: 2
title: Blurring Distinctions: Network and Local News / Raymond L. Carroll
pagenum: 45; label: 3
title: Super Tuesday and the Future of Local News / Robert M. Entman
pagenum: 53; label: 4
title: Learning from Television News / Mark R. Levy
pagenum: 69; label: 5
title: Talk-Show Journalism / Thomas B. Rosenstiel
pagenum: 73; label: II
title: Newspapers; label: 6
title: The State of the Industry / Leo Bogart
pagenum: 85; title: Commentary / Richard Harwood
pagenum: 104; label: 7
title: Unbundling the Daily Newspaper / William B. Blankenburg
pagenum: 111; label: 8
title: News Workers and Newsmakers / Douglas Gomery
pagenum: 121; label: 9
title: From the Heartland / Jean Folkerts
pagenum: 127; label: 10
title: The Daily Newsweekly / James Devitt
pagenum: 137; label: III
title: Wire Services; label: 11
title: The Associated Press and United Press International / Richard A. Schwarzlose
pagenum: 145; title: Commentary / Walter Mears
pagenum: 167; title: Commentary / Kim Willenson
pagenum: 171; label: 12
title: The Supplemental News Services / Nathan Kingsley
pagenum: 177; label: IV
title: Newsmagazines; label: 13
title: Remaking Time, Newsweek, and US News and World Report / Byron T. Scott and Ann Walton Sieber
pagenum: 191; title: Commentary / David Gergen
pagenum: 206; title: Commentary / Thomas Griffith
pagenum: 209; label: 14
title: Foreign News: How Newsweek Has Changed / Milan J. Kubic
pagenum: 213; label: V
title: Performance; label: 15
title: How News Media Cover Disasters: The Case of Yellowstone / Conrad Smith
pagenum: 223; title: Epilogue / Peter Braestrup
pagenum: 241; title: Background Books / Douglas Gomery
pagenum: 246; title: About the Authors
pagenum: 255; title: Index
pagenum: 261