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 Part I: The Future of Journalism: Revenues and Business Models 1. Twilight or New Dawn of Journalism? Evidence from the changing news ecosystem 2. Homogenisation or Differentiation? The effects of consolidation in the regional newspaper market 3. Paid Content: A successful revenue model for publishing houses in Germany? 4. Assessing the Sustainability of Latin American Investigative Non-profit Journalism 5. Future Business Innovation in Minority Language Media: Back to basics 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 7. Revisiting Narrative Journalism as one of the Futures of Journalism 8. Dialogue as a Journalistic Ideal 9. Why Democracies Need a Functional Definition of Journalism Now More than Ever 10. Morbid Symptoms: Between a dying and a re-birth (apologies to Gramsci) 11. Constructing the Crisis of Journalism: Towards a cultural understanding of the economic collapse of newspapers during the digital revolution 12. Code, Collaboration and the Future of Journalism: A case study of the Hacks/Hackers Global Network 13. The Construction of Participation in News Websites: A five-dimensional model 14. Journalism in Dispersion: Exploring the blurring boundaries of newsmaking through a controversy Part III: The Future of Journalism: Changing Journalism Practice 15. Enter the Robot Journalist: Users' perceptions of automated content 16. Data Journalism in Sweden: Introducing new methods and genres of journalism into "old" organisations 17. Visualising News: Make it work 18. A Time of Uncertainty: The effects of reporters' time schedule on their work 19. The Future of Breaking News Online: A study of live blogs through surveys of their consumption, readers' attitudes and participation 20. Follow-up Communication in the Blogosphere: A comparative study of bloggers linking to professional and participatory media 21. Media Convergence Revisited: Lessons learned on newsroom integration in Austria, Germany and Spain 22. Journalism and the City: Redefining the spaces of foreign Correspondence 23. Networking or Not Working? A comparison of Arab Spring coverage in Belgian newspapers and TV news 24. Citation needed: Investigating the use of hyperlinks to display sources in news stories 25. Revealing the News: How online news changes without you noticing Part IV: The Future of Journalism: Social Media 26. Tailor-made News: Meeting the demands of news users on mobile and social media 27. Social Media References in Newspapers: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as sources in newspaper journalism 28. Engaging the Social News User: Comments on news sites and Facebook 29. Identifying and Verifying News through Social Media: Developing a user-centred tool for professional journalists 30. Digital "Gatekeeping": News media versus social media 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 32. The Robot Eye Witness: Extending visual journalism through drone surveillance 33. Anyone Can Take a Photo: But is there space for the professional photographer in the 21st Century newsroom? 34. Textual DNA: The hindered authorship of photojournalists in the Western press 35. The Role of the Non-Government Organisation in Practising Editorial Photography in a Globalised Media Environment 36. The Undressed Newsroom: The application of visual ethnography in media research 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 38. The Hyperlocal in Practice: Innovation, creativity and diversity 39. The Changing Role of the Local News Media in Enabling Citizens to Engage in Local Democracies 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 41. Accounting for Journalism 42. The Journalistic Quality of Internet Formats and Services: Results of a user survey Part VIII: Journalism: Changing Professional Roles and Identities 43. Mr Gates Returns: Curation, community management and other new roles for journalists 44. The Dynamics of Professional Identity: Why journalists view journalists working in PR as a threat to journalism 45. To Intervene or be Neutral, to Investigate or Entertain? National and intranational factors in the formation of Nordic journalism students' role perceptions 46. Towards the Liberal Model: The professional ideals of Swedish journalists
