New book on the changing business of journalism
The Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford has just published a
new book, edited by David Levy and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, on ?The
Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy?.
The book costs £19.95 (including postage) if bought via the Oxford
University online store
(https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/catalogue/products.asp?compid=1&deptid=89&catID=65&hasClicked=1)
The book deals with developments in a range of different countries and
sectors, and includes contributions from Alice Antheaume, Michael
Brüggemann, Frank Esser, David A. L. Levy, John Lloyd, Rasmus Kleis
Nielsen, Hannu Nieminen, Robert G. Picard, Mauro Porto, Michael
Schudson, Daya Kishan Thussu, and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent.
The back blurb, plus endorsements from Nicholas Lemann and Paolo
Mancini, are below.
?The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy?
The business of journalism is widely held to be in a terminal crisis
today, in particular because the rise of the internet has drained
audience attention and advertising revenue away from existing media
platforms. This book, the first systematic international overview of
how the news industry is dealing with current changes, counters such
simplistic predictions of the supposedly technologically determined
death of the news industry. It offers instead nuanced scrutiny of the
threats and opportunities facing legacy news organisations across the
world in countries as diverse as the United States, the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland, Brazil, and India as they
transition to an increasingly convergent media landscape. The Changing
Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy establishes
that this is no time for fatalism, but for a renewed commitment to
journalism and its role in democracy from journalists themselves and
from media managers and policy-makers, all of whom can learn from
professional, commercial, and policy developments beyond their own
countries, developments such as those analysed here.
?The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for
Democracy, as the only rigorous global survey of a situation usually
discussed on the basis of anecdote and unproved assertion, is an
indispensable and necessary work. It ought to open the way for real
progress in reinventing journalism.?
Nicholas Lemann
Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism
?This is a very detailed and rich analysis of the structural changes
in today?s business of journalism: the media in many countries face a
deep crisis caused both by new technologies and more general economic
circumstances while in others they are experiencing rapid growth. In
both cases the entire structure of the field is undergoing a dramatic
change in terms of professional practice and in how media are
organized and run. This book represents an indispensable tool for all
those who want to understand where journalism and democracy are going
today.?
Paolo Mancini
Professor at Università di Perugia and co-author of Comparing Media
Systems (Cambridge, 2004)
