SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World / Edition 1

by Charlie Beckett

Overview

SuperMedia is a lively, engaging, and refreshingly-opinionated text offering informed discussion on the importance and future of liberal journalism as a healthy part of a flourishing society.

• Examines the profound changes journalism is undergoing for social, economic and technological reasons
• Explores the potential for a entirely new type of journalism which these changes create, discussing the impact of social networking sites and blogs on traditional journalism, and making the case that journalism could be the catalyst for change needed to solve many of the world’s problems in a controversial manner
• Written by a first class broadcast journalist, it provides a practical roadmap for identifying the issues and solutions that will ensure an open and reliable news media for generations to come

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405179249
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/21/2008
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Charlie Beckett is the founding Director of POLIS, the forum for research and debate into journalism and society at the London School of Economics. He has worked for some of the best news and current affairs programs at the BBC and Channel 4 News. He currently writes and broadcasts internationally about global journalism while also teaching and researching at the LSE and the University of the Arts of London.

Table of Contents

List of Figures.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: "TheDailyPlanet.com": Why We Must Save Journalism So that Journalism Can Save the World.

1. "Help! Help! Who Will Save Us?": The New Media Landscape.

2. "Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No! It's SuperMedia!": Networked Journalism.

3. "Will Nobody Do Anything to Help?": Networked Journalism and Politics.

4. Fighting Evil: Terror, Community, and Networked Journalism.

5. We Can All be Super Heroes: Networked Journalism in Action: Editorial Diversity and Media Literacy.

Suggested Reading.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Charlie Beckett provides a serious but accessible introduction to the challenges facing contemporary journalism, intellectually and professionally. Presenting an argument for the importance of journalism in society, whilst also recognising the impact of business and technology on that contribution, Super Media will be invaluable to media students wanting a cutting-edge survey from an experienced and reflective practitioner."
–Adrian Monck, head of the Department of Journalism and Publishing, City University, London

"The idea and practice of networked journalism needs this thorough examination and this manifesto in its favor. And I second Charlie Beckett's contention that we in the news business and in society need networked journalism not just to protect but to expand journalism's future."
–Jeff Jarvis, blogger and professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

"Charlie Beckett knows the business from the inside, and in Super Media it shows. A powerful analysis of the great challenges facing all of us, whether reporters readers, bloggers or viewers. Read it, and act!"
–Jon Snow, Presenter, Channel 4 News

"This important book charts a course through journalism's current crises of Trust, Economics and Technology and points to a way of reconnecting with a broad social purpose."
–Richard Sambrook, BBC News