Description |
1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) |
Contents |
About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from ink to link; 01 Communicating whatever we please; Messy, unethical and opinionated origins; Select and noteworthy happenings; An explosion of opinion; Playing with fire; 'Bible, ax and newspapers'; A brief flowering; The world's great informer; Every species of intelligence; 02 Furnishing the world with a new set of nerves; A great moral organ; The true Church of England; The Steam Intellect Society; We are all learning to move together; A vast agora; I order five virgins; The few dozen lines of drivel; A press typhoon |
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The waning power of the harlot03 The gilded age; A fluid mass; The brute force of monopoly; Sorrow, sorrow, ever more; A well-conducted press; 'So will it be goodbye to Fleet Street?'; I really loathe people with power; Deregulation; Boom and decline; Owners, news and celebrity; 04 The engine of opportunity; Chain reaction; Utopia or dystopia?; What the internet does to the business of news; 05 Rethinking journalism again; Complexity; Frontiers fade and vanish; Ink marks on squashed trees; Comparison and choice; The downside risks of choice; Authority; Manipulation; Objectivity under strain |
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The advantages and drawbacks of institutionsThe management of abundance; New media and change: a case study; Conclusion; 06 The business model crumbles; Over a cliff; Print is not dead; Palliative care for print; Flipping to digital; Making people pay: walls and meters; The demand for news; What we don't know about online news; 07 Credibility crumbles; Newsroom culture; Operation Motorman; Phone hacking; 'Quality' and 'seriousness'; Trust and authority; A spell is broken; 08 The Leveson judgement; Diagnosis; Prescription; A third way; Regulation's future; Plurality |
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09 Throwing spaghetti at the wallFour core tasks; We were having journalistic moments!; Error is useful; 10 Clues to the future; Business models; From the ashes of dead trees; Index |
Summary |
"Traditional newspapers are under threat. The emergence of citizen journalism, collaborative news websites and freebie news-sheets -- coupled with a catastrophic drop in ad revenue -- has pushed many to the brink. Papers around the world are cutting copy, editions and staff, moving online or closing down. Out of Print explores how the collision of technology, economics and social forces has thrown news, newspapers and journalism into crisis. Covers key issues such as: the increased competition from expansive radio and 24 hour television news channels; the emergence of free "Metro" papers; the delivery of news services on billboards, podcasts and mobile; the development of online editions, as well as the burgeoning of blogs, citizen journalists and User Generated Content. Incisive and authoritative, Out of Print analyzes the role and influence of newspapers in the digital age and asks whether they can survive and, if so, how"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Newspaper publishing -- Great Britain -- Finance
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Newspaper publishing -- United States -- Finance
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Newspaper publishing -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
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Newspaper publishing -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Online journalism -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
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Online journalism -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Press -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
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Press -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Digital media -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
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Digital media -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Press & journalism.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications Industries.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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Newspaper publishing -- Economic aspects
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Newspaper publishing -- Finance
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Press -- Economic aspects
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Media, entertainment, information and communication industries.
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Great Britain
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780749466527 |
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0749466529 |
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1299794858 |
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9781299794856 |
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