Over the last 30 years 24-hour television news channels have reshaped the practice and culture of journalism. But the arrival of new content and social media platforms over recent years has challenged their power and authority, with fast-changing technologies accelerating the speed of news delivery and reshaping audience behaviour. Following on from The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives (Cushion and Lewis, 2010), this volume explores new challenges and pressures facing television news channels, and considers the future of 24-hour news. Featuring a wide range of industry and academic perspectives, including the heads of some of the major international news channels (BBC Global News, Al Jazeera and Sky News, among others) as well as leading academics from around the world, contributors reflect on how well rolling television news is reinventing itself for digital platforms and the rapidly changing expectations of audiences. Overall, the 24 chapters in this volume deliver fresh insights into how 24-hour news channels have redefined rolling news journalism - or potentially could do - in order to remain relevant and effective in supplying continuous news for 21st-century audiences.
Contents: Introduction: The Future of 24-Hour News: New Directions, New Challenges - Stephen Cushion/Richard Sambrook: Part I. Industry Challenges and Pressures: International Perspectives: Setting the Scene and Provoking Debate - Richard Sambrook/Sean McGuire: Have 24-Hour TV News Channels Had Their Day? - The View from the Control Room: Executives and Editors on the Future of 24-Hour Television News - The View from the United States: Three Forces Shaping the Future of Video News - David L. Westin: The View from Europe: «All Views» First - Michael Peters: The View from Russia: «Your News Channel» Is Here to Stay - Margarita Simonyan: The View from Australia: How Will We Be Heard? - Mark Scott: The View from the UK: Sky News - John Ryley: The View from the UK: The BBC - Channel Wars, Streaming Wars - Peter Horrocks: The View from the Middle East: Al Jazeera - Ibrahim Helal: View of the News Agencies: The Struggle for Renewal and Renaissance - David Schlesinger: Part II. Understanding the Past, Present and Future of 24-hour News: Changing Conventions and Journalism Practices - Revisiting the Three Phases of 24-Hour News Television in the Age of Social Media - Stephen Cushion: Televisual Newspapers? When 24/7 Television News Channels Join Newspapers as «Old Media» - Michael Bromley: 24-Hour News Channels around the Globe: Continuity or Change? - Mugdha Rai/Simon Cottle: The Political Economy and Journalisms of 24-Hour News Culture - Financial Challenges of 24-Hour News Channels - Robert G. Picard: Quick Quick Slow: From Fast News to Slow News - Justin Lewis: Journalism in the Age of the «Interface» - Ingrid Volkmer: Networked Reporting on Al Jazeera English: Context, Challenges and Comparative Advantages - Tine Ustad Figenschou: Twitter and the Rolling-News Agenda in Sports News - Alan Tomlinson: Producing News in the Moment: Video Journalism in an Increasingly Converged 24/7 Media Environment - Mary Angela Bock: National Contexts and Journalistic Challenges - The International Newsgathering Challenge for Public Service Australian and Canadian 24/7 TV Channels - Colleen Murrell: Anti-Social Media: Watching, Hearing and Talking about Politics in US Cable News Channels - Jesse Holcomb: The Evolving Format of US Cable News and the Proliferation of Opinion - Alison Dagnes: 24-Hour News in Australia: Public Service and Private Interests - Brian McNair: Where Infotainment Rules: TV News from India - Yunya Song/ Tsan-kuo Chang Yin Lu: Daya Kishan Thussu: CCTV 24-Hour Chinese-Language News: From Offline to Online.
