UID:
almafu_9959243432902883
Format:
1 online resource (265 p.)
Edition:
Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
ISBN:
0-231-53629-1
Series Statement:
Columbia Journalism Review Books
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes index.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Quality Journalism Reconsidered --
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1. "Principles, Opinions, Sentiments, And Affections" --
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2. "Yesterday's Doings in All Continents" --
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3. "Circulators of Intelligence Merely" --
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4. "Bye-Bye to the Old 'Who-What-When-Where' " --
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5. "Much as One May Try to Disappear from the Work" --
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6. "The World's Immeasurable Babblement" --
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7. "Shimmering Intellectual Scoops" --
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Notes --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-15938-2
Language:
English
