- Assesses the commercial, human and political factors affecting the newspaper industry
- Brings together a judicious mix of academic expertise and professional journalistic experience to discuss the 'perfect storm' of falling circulations, reduced advertising revenue, rising print costs and the impact of 'citizen journalists' and free news aggregators
- Analyses and reports on the global future of newspapers, reflecting their location in different market sectors, countries and journalism cultures
- Online Resources: downloadable lecture slides
Out of Print
Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age
Learn how journalism can flourish in a new communications age.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9780749466510
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x156
256 pages
About the book
News and journalism are in the midst of upheaval: shifts such as declining print subscriptions and rising website visitor numbers are forcing assumptions and practices to be rethought from first principles. The internet is not simply allowing faster, wider distribution of material: digital technology is demanding transformative change. Out of Print analyzes the role and influence of newspapers in the digital age and explains how current theory and practice have to change to fully exploit developing opportunities.
In Out of Print George Brock guides readers through the history, present state and future of journalism, highlighting how and why journalism needs to be rethought on a global scale and remade to meet the demands and opportunities of new conditions. He provides a unique examination of every key issue, from the phone-hacking scandal and Leveson Inquiry to the impact of social media on news and expectations. He presents an incisive, authoritative analysis of the role and influence of journalism in the digital age.
Online supporting resources for this book include downloadable lecture slides.
About the authors
George Brock is a professor and former head of the prestigious Graduate School of Journalism at City University London. During his career as a journalist he worked for the Observer and The Times, where he was Foreign Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor. He has served as president of the World Editors Forum and is on the board of the International Press Institute. He is a regular commentator on news and journalism in the UK and global media and is an active conference speaker and reviewer.
When George Brock talks, in his excellent book, about the disruption of the net, the atomisation of news and opinion, he evokes echoes of a different era: an unruly world of vituperation, agitation, even revolution. But this time it may not be the melee of new voices that crowded the pages of centuries past. This time it's a higgledy-piggledy high-tech empowerment that politicians (and editors) can't control.
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