The Institutions Changing Journalism

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"This outstanding volume provides timely and thought-provoking insights into the constantly evolving nature of journalism, the fluid definitions and overlapping roles of occupational outsiders and insiders, and the existential questions practitioners face in navigating between tradition and change. Every chapter offers a fresh perspective on the "received wisdom" of journalism studies about challenges and challengers. Some authors provide unusual takes on the usual suspects, from audiences to native advertisers; others investigate such unexpected "barbarians" as ideological editors, foundations, even academics. Just what is journalism today, and who is a journalist? The answers suggested here are more nuanced, and more interesting, than you might think." - Professor Jane Singer, Professor of Journalism and Innovation, City, University of London

"This collection of essays grapples with a curious but highly consequential fact: since the advent of professional journalism at the turn of the twentieth-century, there has never been more news produced than today, and never less of it by journalists. Over eleven wide-ranging chapters, the authors investigate what happens when journalists who once were able to patrol the boundaries of their field now find themselves cheek-to-jowl with political activists, advertisers, nonprofits, university newsrooms, the "people formerly known as the audience," and technologists, among others. The result is an incisive exploration of how and why the institution of journalism has blurred in the twenty-first century. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of news and the role journalism might play in that future." - Professor David Ryfe, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa