by Michael Williams (Editor), Michael Williams (Editor), George Ogola (Editor), Michael Williams (Editor), Peter Anderson (Editor)
In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available.
This new study, a follow-up to 2007's The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, includes a comparative analysis of possible alternative business models that may save the future of the quality news business across the developed, intermediate, and developing worlds.
Its detailed evaluation encompasses also the different ways in which wider key issues are affecting the prospects for quality news as a core ingredient of effectively working democracies. It focuses on the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Kenya, and selected parts of the Arab World, providing a comprehensive cross-cultural survey of different approaches to addressing these various issues. To keep the study firmly rooted in the real world the contributors include distinguished practitioners as well as experienced academics.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 342
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Feb 2016
ISBN 10: 1138653861
ISBN 13: 9781138653863
This impressive work of scholarship and analysis spotlights the essential role that quality journalism and news organizations plays in civil society and focuses urgently needed attention on the challenges of sustaining such enterprises.
--Eric Freedman, Michigan State University
Much has been written in the trade and online journals about how digital and social media tools have changed the newsgathering and news writing process, but this book highlights how news organizations are dealing with not only this issue but also the issue of the changing business model for print, online and broadcast.
--Leigh Wright, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator