| Description |
xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"In response to mounting concerns about the future of the press, an outpouring of lively debate and proposals for alternative models of journalism has exploded across journals of opinion, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Despite this proliferation, a comprehensive overview of this new terrain has been noticeably missing-just what will the world look like without newspapers. Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights offers the first roadmap to this crucially important new debate, in a concise and accessible introduction to the current schools of thought emerging in response to the journalism crisis, with contributions by the leading media analysts writing today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Out of print : the death and life of the American newspaper / Eric Alterman -- Goodbye to the age of newspapers (Hello to a new era of corruption) : why American politics and society are about to be changed for the worse / Paul Starr -- Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable / Clay Shirky -- Build the wall / David Simon -- The reconstruction of American Journalism / Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson -- A surfeit of crises : circulation, revenue, attention, authority, and deference / Todd Gitlin -- Down the news hole / Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols -- Bright frenetic mills / Thomas Frank -- The money and media election complex / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney -- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Congress of the United States, A new age of newspapers, diversity of voices, competition, and the Internet / C. Edwin Baker -- The Washington-Madison solution / Geoffrey Cowan and David Westphal -- U.S. international broadcasting : an untapped resource for domestic and ethnic news organizations / Shawn Powers -- That was now and this is then : Walter Lippmann and the crisis of journalism / Robert W. McChesney -- Simply a piece of stupid despotism : how socialists saved the First Amendment / John Nichols -- Revisiting the road not taken : a social democratic vision of the press / Victor Pickard -- News for all : the epic story of race and the American media / Juan González and Joseph Torres -- The Wall Street-based absentee ownership model of our news is broken / Frank Blethen and Ryan Blethen -- A better future for journalism requires a clear-eyed view of its present / Janine Jackson -- The disease of objectivity / Chris Hedges -- When losers write history / Matt Welch -- Giving the networked public sphere time to develop / Yochai Benkler -- How journalists must operate in a new networked media environment / Jessica Clark and Tracy Von Slyke -- The future of journalism diversity / Pamela Newkirk -- The rise of the right : conservatives are wading into investigative reporting. Can their journalism survive politics? / Laura McGann -- Professional journalists, hands off! Citizen journalism as civic responsibility / Nikki Usher -- What's the incentive to save journalism? / James T. Hamilton -- What about the news? An interest in the public / Michaels J. Copps -- One click away : the case for the Internet news voucher / Bruce Ackerman -- The daily show and The Colbert report in a changing information environment : should 'fake news' be held to real standards? / Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini -- Public funding and journalistic independence : what does research tell us? / Rodney Benson -- The future of journalism : addressing pervasive market failure with public policy / Mark Cooper -- Public media to the rescue? / Craig Aaron. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-366). |
| Subject |
Journalism -- United States.
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Journalism -- Technological innovations -- United States.
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Journalism -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952-
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Pickard, Victor W.
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| ISBN |
9781595585486 paperback $19.95 |
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1595585486 paperback |
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