{"product_id":"can-journalism-survive-an-inside-look-at-american-newsrooms-paperback-softback-9780745654287","title":"Can Journalism Survive?; An Inside Look at American Newsrooms (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745654287","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCan Journalism Survive?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Inside Look at American Newsrooms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid M. Ryfe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745654287, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 August 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.374 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the finest and more in-depth portrayals of the struggle of newspapers to reinvent themselves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDigital Journalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ryfe offers compelling evidence that the success of new forms of public interaction - social media, blogs, crowdsourcing, data mining, etc - can, and are, mobilising local communities in the interests of greater transparency and accountability. He identifies a key role for journalists in this process: \"Crowds need people who can catalyze the community, organize its work in granular form and put the pieces together when finished.\" And although he accepts that there are some journalists, maybe the majority, who will find it difficult to accept this new gatekeeping role, he is adamant: this is the future, whether they like it or not.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26\u0026amp;storycode=420719\u0026amp;c=1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a book which demands attention within the media industry and with all those interested in the development of society in a changing social era.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrange Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For all our academic debates about what journalism should do to survive in the digital age, David Ryfe has done the invaluable research needed to have this discussion in the first place: he looked at what journalists do to make it work, and why.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMark Deuze, Indiana University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Ryfe has written an accessible and thoughtful book about US press journalism as it faces the drawn-out challenge of finding new business models in the face of the digital revolution. With its first-person style and lively ethnographic detail, it is written to appeal to a new generation of students facing many professional uncertainties.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePhilip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"'There will always be newspapers,' journalists told David Ryfe a half dozen years ago. Now they are not so sure what that could possibly mean, as Ryfe shows in this study of a profession in crisis. A masterful portrait of three different newsrooms close-up, warts and all, this is an original, readable, and important work.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Schudson, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge of the  Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of journalism  and democracy. This is the compelling argument set forth in this timely  new text, drawing on the most extensive ethnographic fieldwork in  American newsrooms since the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Ryfe argues that journalists are unable or unwilling to  innovate for a variety of reasons: in part because habits are sticky and  difficult to dislodge; in part because of their strategic calculation  that the cost of change far exceeds its benefit; and in part because  basic definitions of what journalism is, and what it is for, anchor  journalism to tradition even when journalists prefer to change. The  result is that journalism is unraveling as an integrated social field;  it may never again be a separate and separable activity from the broader  practice of producing news. One thing is certain: whatever happens  next, it will have dramatic consequences for the role journalism plays  in democratic society and perhaps will transform its basic meaning and  purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan Journalism Survive? \u003c\/i\u003eis essential and provocative reading for all concerned with the future of journalism and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetailed Contents vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Backstory 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Habits 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Investments 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Defi nitions 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Future 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Worries 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 217\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509153755416,"sku":"9780745654287","price":16.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745654287.jpg?v=1786494488","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/can-journalism-survive-an-inside-look-at-american-newsrooms-paperback-softback-9780745654287","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}