Back in 2010, David Levy and I edited a collection of essays on The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism here in Oxford.
We have today made the whole book available for download here [PDF]. (All the hard copies have been sold!)
In addition to the chapters written by David, Robert Picard, and myself, the book contains interesting contributions by Alice Antheaume (Sciences Po, Paris), Michael Brüggemann (University of Zürich, now Hamburg), Frank Esser (University of Zürich), John Lloyd (University of Oxford/Financial Times), Hannu Nieminen (University of Helsinki), Mauro Porto (Tulane University), Michael Schudson (Columbia University), Daya Kishan Thussu (University of Westminster), and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent (World Intellectual Property Organisation and formerly OECD).
Nicholas Lemann and Paolo Mancini provided the advance praise with some very nice quotes.
The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy, as the only rigorous global survey of a situation usually discussed on the basis of anecdote and unproved assertion, is an indispensable and necessary work. It ought to open the way for real progress in reinventing journalism.
Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
This is a very detailed and rich analysis of the structural changes in today’s business of journalism: the media in many countries face a deep crisis caused both by new technologies and more general economic circumstances while in others they are experiencing rapid growth. In both cases the entire structure of the field is undergoing a dramatic change in terms of professional practice and in how media are organized and run. This book represents an indispensable tool for all those who want to understand where journalism and democracy are going today.
Paolo Mancini, Professor at Università di Perugia and co-author of Comparing Media Systems (Cambridge, 2004).
The full table of content looks as follows:
Contents
Executive summary
1. The Changing Business of Journalism and its
Implications for Democracy
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and David A. L. Levy
2. A Business Perspective on Challenges Facing Journalism
Robert G. Picard
3. Online News: Recent Developments, New Business
Models and Future Prospects
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
4. The Strategic Crisis of German Newspapers
Frank Esser and Michael Brüggemann
5. The Unravelling Finnish Media Policy Consensus?
Hannu Nieminen
6. The French Press and its Enduring Institutional Crisis
Alice Antheaume
7. The Press We Destroy
John Lloyd
8. News in Crisis in the United States: Panic – And Beyond
Michael Schudson
9. The Changing Landscape of Brazil’s News Media
Mauro P. Porto
10. The Business of ‘Bollywoodized’ Journalism
Daya Kishan Thussu
11. Which Way for the Business of Journalism?
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and David A. L. Levy
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