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The Future of Journalism: In an Age of Digital Media and Economic Uncertainty
The development of digital media has delivered innovations and prompted tectonic shifts in all aspects of journalism practice, the journalism industry and scholarly research in the field of journalism studies; this book offers detailed accounts of changes in all three arenas. The collapse of the ‘advertising model’, in tandem with the impact of the continuing global recession, has created economic difficulties for legacy media, and an increasingly frenzied search for new business strategies to resource a sustainable journalism, while triggering concerns about the very future of journalism and journalists.
The Future of Journalism: In an Age of Digital Media and Economic Uncertainty brings together the research conversation conducted by a distinguished group of scholars, researchers, journalists and journalism educators from around the globe and hosted by ‘The Future of Journalism’ at Cardiff University in September 2013. The significance of their responses to these pressing and challenging questions is impossible to overstate. Divided into nine sections, this collection analyses and discusses the future of journalism in relation to: Revenues and Business Models; Controversies and Debates; Changing Journalism Practice; Social Media; Photojournalism and visual images of News; Local and Hyperlocal journalism; Quality, Transparency and Accountability; and Changing Professional Roles and Identities.
This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the prospects for journalism and the consequent implications for communications within and between local, national and international communities, for economic growth, the operation of democracy and the maintenance and development of the social and cultural life of societies around the globe. This book was originally published as special issues of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies.
Introduction - The Future of Journalism in an Age of Digital Media and Economic Uncertainty Bob Franklin
Part I: The Future of Journalism: Revenues and Business Models
1. Twilight or New Dawn of Journalism? Evidence from the changing news ecosystem Robert G. Picard
2. Homogenisation or Differentiation? The effects of consolidation in the regional newspaper market Helle Sjøvaag
3. Paid Content: A successful revenue model for publishing houses in Germany? Barbara Brandstetter and Jessica Schmalhofer
4. Assessing the Sustainability of Latin American Investigative Non-profit Journalism José Luis Requejo-Alemán and Jairo Lugo-Ocando
5. Future Business Innovation in Minority Language Media: Back to basics Iñaki Zabaleta, Carme Ferré-Pavia, Arantza Gutierrez, Itxaso Fernandez and Nikolas Xamardo
Part II: The Future of Journalism: Controversies and Debates
6. Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Digital News Media: Ethical implications for journalists and media organisations Stephen Wood, Paul Shabajee, Daniel Schien, Christopher Hodgson and Chris Preist
7. Revisiting Narrative Journalism as one of the Futures of Journalism Erik Neveu
8. Dialogue as a Journalistic Ideal Harald Hornmoen and Steen Steensen
9. Why Democracies Need a Functional Definition of Journalism Now More than Ever Ivor Shapiro
10. Morbid Symptoms: Between a dying and a re-birth (apologies to Gramsci) Martin Conboy and Scott Eldridge II
11. Constructing the Crisis of Journalism: Towards a cultural understanding of the economic collapse of newspapers during the digital revolution María Luengo
12. Code, Collaboration and the Future of Journalism: A case study of the Hacks/Hackers Global Network Seth Lewis and Nikki Usher
13. The Construction of Participation in News Websites: A five-dimensional model Yacov Netzer, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Limor Shifman
14. Journalism in Dispersion: Exploring the blurring boundaries of newsmaking through a controversy David Domingo and Florence Le Cam
Part III: The Future of Journalism: Changing Journalism Practice
15. Enter the Robot Journalist: Users’ perceptions of automated content Christer Clerwall
16. Data Journalism in Sweden: Introducing new methods and genres of journalism into "old" organisations Esther Applegren and Gunnar Nygren
17. Visualising News: Make it work Gerard Smit, Yael de Haan and Laura Buijs
18. A Time of Uncertainty: The effects of reporters’ time schedule on their work Zvi Reich and Yigal Godler
19. The Future of Breaking News Online: A study of live blogs through surveys of their consumption, readers’ attitudes and participation Neil Thurman and Nic Newman
20. Follow-up Communication in the Blogosphere: A comparative study of bloggers linking to professional and participatory media Christian Nuernbergk
21. Media Convergence Revisited: Lessons learned on newsroom integration in Austria, Germany and Spain José A. García-Avilés, Andy Kaltenbrunner, and Klaus Meier
22. Journalism and the City: Redefining the spaces of foreign Correspondence Cristina Archetti
23. Networking or Not Working? A comparison of Arab Spring coverage in Belgian newspapers and TV news Sarah Van Leuven, Annelore Deprez and Karin Raeymaeckers
24. Citation needed: Investigating the use of hyperlinks to display sources in news stories Juliette de Maeyer
25. Revealing the News: How online news changes without you noticing John Fass and Angus Main
Part IV: The Future of Journalism: Social Media
26. Tailor-made News: Meeting the demands of news users on mobile and social media Tim Groot Kormelink and Irene Costera Meijer
27. Social Media References in Newspapers: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as sources in newspaper journalism Steve Paulussen and Raymond Harder
28. Engaging the Social News User: Comments on news sites and Facebook Sanne Hille and Piet Bakker
29. Identifying and Verifying News through Social Media: Developing a user-centred tool for professional journalists Steve Schifferes, Nic Newman, Neil Thurman, David Corney, Ayse Göker and Carlos Martin
30. Digital "Gatekeeping": News media versus social media Peter Bro and Filip Wallberg
Part V: The Future of Journalism: Photojournalism and visual images of News
31. Proximity as a Journalistic Keyword in the Digital Era: A study of the "closeness" of amateur news images Laura Ahva and Mervi Pantti
32. The Robot Eye Witness: Extending visual journalism through drone surveillance Astrid Gynnild
33. Anyone Can Take a Photo: But is there space for the professional photographer in the 21st Century newsroom? Helen Caple
34. Textual DNA: The hindered authorship of photojournalists in the Western press Zvi Reich and Inbal Klein-Avraham
35. The Role of the Non-Government Organisation in Practising Editorial Photography in a Globalised Media Environment Louise Grayson
36. The Undressed Newsroom: The application of visual ethnography in media research Kateřina Sv. Gillárová, Alice N. Tejkalová and Filip Láb
Part VI: The Future of Journalism: Local and Hyperlocal
37. Re-establishing the Relationship with the Public: Regional Journalism and Citizens’ Involvement in the News Liesbeth Hermans, Gabi Schaap and Jo Bardoel
38. The Hyperlocal in Practice: Innovation, creativity and diversity Marco van Kerkhoven and Piet Bakker
39. The Changing Role of the Local News Media in Enabling Citizens to Engage in Local Democracies Julie Firmstone and Stephen Coleman
Part VII: The Future of Journalism: Quality, Transparency and Accountability
40. You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: Transparency’s (lack of) effect on source and message credibility Michael Karlsson, Christer Clerwall and Lars Nord
41. Accounting for Journalism Martin Eide
42. The Journalistic Quality of Internet Formats and Services: Results of a user survey Christoph Neuberger
Part VIII: Journalism: Changing Professional Roles and Identities
43. Mr Gates Returns: Curation, community management and other new roles for journalists Piet Bakker
44. The Dynamics of Professional Identity: Why journalists view journalists working in PR as a threat to journalism Magnus Fredriksson and Bengt Johansson
45. To Intervene or be Neutral, to Investigate or Entertain? National and intranational factors in the formation of Nordic journalism students´ role perceptions Jan Fredrik Hovden
46. Towards the Liberal Model: The professional ideals of Swedish journalists Jenny Wiik
Biography
Bob Franklin is Professor of Journalism Studies in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is founding editor of the journals Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Journalism Studies. Recent book length studies include: The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates (2013); Televising Democracies (2013); Social Work, the Media and Public Relations (2013, with Nigel Parton); The Future of Journalism (2011); Journalism Education, Training and Employment (2011, with Donica Mensing); Journalism, Sources and Credibility: New Perspectives with Matt Carlson (2011); and The Future of Newspapers (2009).
