1st Edition

Changing the News The Forces Shaping Journalism in Uncertain Times

Edited By Wilson Lowrey, Peter J. Gade Copyright 2011
320 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Changing the News examines the difficulties in changing news processes and practices in response to the evolving circumstances and struggles of the journalism industry. The editors have put together this volume to demonstrate why the prescriptions employed to salvage the journalism industry to date haven’t worked, and to explain how constraints and pressures have influenced the field’s... Read more

Foreword: Certainty and Uncertainty of Change in Journalism -- Robert Picard

Chapter 1: Complexity, Uncertainty and Journalistic Change -- Wilson Lowrey and Peter Gade

Chapter 2: Reshaping the Journalistic Culture -- Peter Gade and Wilson Lowrey

Part II: Ideology, Culture and Institutions

Chapter 3: Journalism and Democracy -- John Merrill

Chapter 4: Postmodernism, Uncertainty, and Journalism -- Peter Gade

Chapter 5: The Call and Challenge for Diversity -- George Sylvie

Chapter 6: Communities, Cultural Identity and the News -- Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

Chapter 7: Changes in Community Power Structures -- Douglas Blanks Hindman

Chapter 8: News: Once and Future Institution? -- Wilson Lowrey

Part III: Markets, Organization and Profession

Chapter 9: Market Journalism -- Stephen Lacy and Ardyth Broadrick Sohn

Chapter 10: The Fragmenting Mass Media Marketplace -- John Dimmick, Angela Powers, Sam Mwangi, and Elizabeth Stoycheff

Chapter 11: Changing perceptions of organizations -- C. Ann Hollifield

Chapter 12: Journalism and Digital Technologies -- Jane B. Singer

Chapter 13: "So Many Stories, So Little Time": Changing perceptions of professional roles -- Randal A. Beam and Lindsey Meeks

Chapter 14: Where professionalism begins -- Lee B. Becker and Tudor Vlad

Chapter 15: Connective Journalism -- Wilson Lowrey and Peter Gade

Biography

Wilson Lowrey is an associate professor in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama. Lowrey’s research focuses on the sociology of news work, and has been published in a number of journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Political Communication, Journalism, Journalism Studies and Journal of Media Economics.

Peter J. Gade is a Gaylord Family Professor and Journalism Area Head in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He is a co-author of Twilight of Press Freedom: The Rise of People’s Journalism (2001). He is a former newspaper reporter and mid-level manager and has worked as an organizational consultant for newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.