Beyond news : the future of journalism / Mitchell Stephens ; cover design, Lisa Hamm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephens, Mitchell, author.

Contributor:

Hamm, Lisa, cover designer.

Series:

Columbia Journalism Review books.

Columbia Journalism Review Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--History--21st century.

Journalism.

Journalism--Technological innovations.

Online journalism.

Reporters and reporting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

New York ; Chichester, England : Columbia University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devices-fast, abundant, and mostly free-that era is ending. Our best journalists, Mitchell Stephens argues, instead must offer original, challenging perspectives-not just slightly more thorough accounts of widely reported events. His book proposes a new standard: "wisdom journalism," an amalgam of the more rarified forms of reporting-exclusive, enterprising, investigative-and informed, insightful, interpretive, explanatory, even opinionated takes on current events.This book features an original, sometimes critical examination of contemporary journalism, both on- and offline, and it finds inspiration for a more ambitious and effective understanding of journalism in examples from twenty-first-century articles and blogs, as well as in a selection of outstanding twentieth-century journalism and Benjamin Franklin's eighteenth-century writings. Most attempts to deal with journalism's current crisis emphasize technology. Stephens emphasizes mindsets and the need to rethink what journalism has been and might become.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: Quality Journalism Reconsidered

1. "Principles, Opinions, Sentiments, And Affections"

2. "Yesterday's Doings in All Continents"

3. "Circulators of Intelligence Merely"

4. "Bye-Bye to the Old 'Who-What-When-Where' "

5. "Much as One May Try to Disappear from the Work"

6. "The World's Immeasurable Babblement"

7. "Shimmering Intellectual Scoops"

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231536295

0231536291

OCLC:

878299392