Rick Edmonds
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195370805
- eISBN:
- 9780199776610
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370805.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
With dismal 2008 results and 2009 expected to be worse still, there was, at the time of this book's publication, no bounce left in the newspaper industry's step. Clearly, newspapers entered a race ...
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With dismal 2008 results and 2009 expected to be worse still, there was, at the time of this book's publication, no bounce left in the newspaper industry's step. Clearly, newspapers entered a race against time to trim costs as quickly as print advertising revenues were tumbling; more than 15 percent year-to-year as deep recession played out. At the same time, newspaper execs were pressed to experiment to find new, sustaining revenue streams. Success was by no means assured. Serious discussion has began to turn to which prominent metro paper would fail first. Print, some new media critics have said, could be largely a relic by early in the decade beginning 2010. This chapter examines the factors that contributed to this decline.Less
With dismal 2008 results and 2009 expected to be worse still, there was, at the time of this book's publication, no bounce left in the newspaper industry's step. Clearly, newspapers entered a race against time to trim costs as quickly as print advertising revenues were tumbling; more than 15 percent year-to-year as deep recession played out. At the same time, newspaper execs were pressed to experiment to find new, sustaining revenue streams. Success was by no means assured. Serious discussion has began to turn to which prominent metro paper would fail first. Print, some new media critics have said, could be largely a relic by early in the decade beginning 2010. This chapter examines the factors that contributed to this decline.
Anthony M. Nadler
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040146
- eISBN:
- 9780252098345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040146.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter explores the “market-driven news” movement that began to spread throughout the newspaper industry in the late 1970s. By reviewing accounts of the movement from journalists and ...
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This chapter explores the “market-driven news” movement that began to spread throughout the newspaper industry in the late 1970s. By reviewing accounts of the movement from journalists and researchers and in trade journals such as Presstime and Editor and Publisher, the chapter reconstructs how the market-driven newspaper movement took form as a culture of production that had a wide-ranging influence on U.S. news. Industry leaders felt that newspapers had to undergo a fundamental shift in their editorial philosophy—that newspapers could no longer define and prioritize news solely based on the professional judgment of editors and journalists. Instead, they proposed that papers needed to reimagine their role as servants not to an abstract public interest, but to their readers' professed interests and desires.Less
This chapter explores the “market-driven news” movement that began to spread throughout the newspaper industry in the late 1970s. By reviewing accounts of the movement from journalists and researchers and in trade journals such as Presstime and Editor and Publisher, the chapter reconstructs how the market-driven newspaper movement took form as a culture of production that had a wide-ranging influence on U.S. news. Industry leaders felt that newspapers had to undergo a fundamental shift in their editorial philosophy—that newspapers could no longer define and prioritize news solely based on the professional judgment of editors and journalists. Instead, they proposed that papers needed to reimagine their role as servants not to an abstract public interest, but to their readers' professed interests and desires.
Martha Steffens
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195370805
- eISBN:
- 9780199776610
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370805.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter presents a firsthand, on-the-street account of what it is like to be a journalist, a business journalist no less, reporting on the very conditions that may produce an upcoming pink slip. ...
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This chapter presents a firsthand, on-the-street account of what it is like to be a journalist, a business journalist no less, reporting on the very conditions that may produce an upcoming pink slip. It raises all the right concerns and gives some recommendations, and concludes that times are tough.Less
This chapter presents a firsthand, on-the-street account of what it is like to be a journalist, a business journalist no less, reporting on the very conditions that may produce an upcoming pink slip. It raises all the right concerns and gives some recommendations, and concludes that times are tough.
Beth Knobel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823279333
- eISBN:
- 9780823281404
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279333.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role. It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power, wasting public funds, and making poor decisions if the ...
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Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role. It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power, wasting public funds, and making poor decisions if the press is not shining its light with what is termed “accountability reporting.” This need has become especially clear as the American press has come under direct attack for carrying out its watchdog duties. This book presents a study of how this most important form of journalism came of age in the digital era at American newspapers. The book examines the front pages of nine newspapers, located across the United States, for clues on how papers addressed the watchdog role as the advent of the Internet transformed journalism. It shows how papers of varying sizes and ownership structures around the country marshaled resources for accountability reporting despite significant financial and technological challenges. Although the American newspaper industry contracted significantly during the 1990s and 2000s due to the digital transformation, the data collected in this book shows that the papers held fast to the watchdog role. The newspapers all endured budget and staff cuts during the 20 years studied as paid circulation and advertising dropped, but the amount of deep watchdog reporting on their front pages generally increased over this time. The book contains interviews with editors of the newspapers studied, who explain why they are staking their papers' futures on the one thing that American newspapers still do better than any other segment of the media—watchdog and investigative reporting.Less
Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role. It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power, wasting public funds, and making poor decisions if the press is not shining its light with what is termed “accountability reporting.” This need has become especially clear as the American press has come under direct attack for carrying out its watchdog duties. This book presents a study of how this most important form of journalism came of age in the digital era at American newspapers. The book examines the front pages of nine newspapers, located across the United States, for clues on how papers addressed the watchdog role as the advent of the Internet transformed journalism. It shows how papers of varying sizes and ownership structures around the country marshaled resources for accountability reporting despite significant financial and technological challenges. Although the American newspaper industry contracted significantly during the 1990s and 2000s due to the digital transformation, the data collected in this book shows that the papers held fast to the watchdog role. The newspapers all endured budget and staff cuts during the 20 years studied as paid circulation and advertising dropped, but the amount of deep watchdog reporting on their front pages generally increased over this time. The book contains interviews with editors of the newspapers studied, who explain why they are staking their papers' futures on the one thing that American newspapers still do better than any other segment of the media—watchdog and investigative reporting.
Victor Pickard
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190946753
- eISBN:
- 9780190946791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190946753.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, Political Economy
Chapter 3 provides an overview of the entire US media landscape, with an emphasis on the various degradations caused by commercial imperatives, such as the loss of local journalism and the structural ...
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Chapter 3 provides an overview of the entire US media landscape, with an emphasis on the various degradations caused by commercial imperatives, such as the loss of local journalism and the structural collapse of commercial journalism. As media outlets desperately chase increasingly elusive revenues, they further debase journalism. Problems that emerge from journalism’s decline range from the turn to invasive and deceptive forms of advertising to a growing precarity in news labor. After discussing such problems, the chapter systematically goes through potential alternatives to the advertising revenue model and concludes that a public option is the best model going forward.Less
Chapter 3 provides an overview of the entire US media landscape, with an emphasis on the various degradations caused by commercial imperatives, such as the loss of local journalism and the structural collapse of commercial journalism. As media outlets desperately chase increasingly elusive revenues, they further debase journalism. Problems that emerge from journalism’s decline range from the turn to invasive and deceptive forms of advertising to a growing precarity in news labor. After discussing such problems, the chapter systematically goes through potential alternatives to the advertising revenue model and concludes that a public option is the best model going forward.
Gwyneth Mellinger
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037382
- eISBN:
- 9780252094644
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037382.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This concluding chapter summarizes the failures of the ASNE to deliver on its promise of newsroom diversity since the inception of its new hiring initiative. It reflects on the highlights, ...
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This concluding chapter summarizes the failures of the ASNE to deliver on its promise of newsroom diversity since the inception of its new hiring initiative. It reflects on the highlights, shortcomings, and ultimately the denouement of this chapter of ASNE (and newspaper) history as it charts the decline of the diversity project. At the same time, the chapter also takes a look at the declining newspaper industry which, while not wholly at fault for the failure of the diversity project, had contributed to it in part. The chapter looks into many other reasons for the failure as well, and concludes with hope for future possibilities even in a world where technological advances have begun to push newsprint culture to the margins in favor of a more globalized media culture.Less
This concluding chapter summarizes the failures of the ASNE to deliver on its promise of newsroom diversity since the inception of its new hiring initiative. It reflects on the highlights, shortcomings, and ultimately the denouement of this chapter of ASNE (and newspaper) history as it charts the decline of the diversity project. At the same time, the chapter also takes a look at the declining newspaper industry which, while not wholly at fault for the failure of the diversity project, had contributed to it in part. The chapter looks into many other reasons for the failure as well, and concludes with hope for future possibilities even in a world where technological advances have begun to push newsprint culture to the margins in favor of a more globalized media culture.
Lee A. Craig
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469606958
- eISBN:
- 9781469608105
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9781469606965_Craig
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of ...
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As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry in the South, forever changing the relationship between politics and the news media. This book delves into Daniels's extensive archive to inform this biography, following Daniels's rise to power in North Carolina and chronicling his influence on twentieth-century politics. A man of great contradictions, Daniels—an ardent prohibitionist, free trader, and Free Silverite—made a fortune in private industry yet served as a persistent critic of unregulated capitalism. He championed progressive causes such as the graded public school movement and antitrust laws even as he led North Carolina's white supremacy movement. The author pulls no punches in his definitive biography of this political powerhouse.Less
As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry in the South, forever changing the relationship between politics and the news media. This book delves into Daniels's extensive archive to inform this biography, following Daniels's rise to power in North Carolina and chronicling his influence on twentieth-century politics. A man of great contradictions, Daniels—an ardent prohibitionist, free trader, and Free Silverite—made a fortune in private industry yet served as a persistent critic of unregulated capitalism. He championed progressive causes such as the graded public school movement and antitrust laws even as he led North Carolina's white supremacy movement. The author pulls no punches in his definitive biography of this political powerhouse.
