Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

by Alan Rusbridger
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

by Alan Rusbridger

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Overview

An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of our time

Technology has radically altered the news landscape. Once-powerful newspapers have lost their clout or been purchased by owners with particular agendas. Algorithms select which stories we see. The Internet allows consequential revelations, closely guarded secrets, and dangerous misinformation to spread at the speed of a click.

In Breaking News, Alan Rusbridger demonstrates how these decisive shifts have occurred, and what they mean for the future of democracy. In the twenty years he spent editing The Guardian, Rusbridger managed the transformation of the progressive British daily into the most visited serious English-language newspaper site in the world. He oversaw an extraordinary run of world-shaking scoops, including the exposure of phone hacking by London tabloids, the Wikileaks release of U.S.diplomatic cables, and later the revelation of Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency files. At the same time, Rusbridger helped The Guardian become a pioneer in Internet journalism, stressing free access and robust interactions with readers. Here, Rusbridger vividly observes the media’s transformation from close range while also offering a vital assessment of the risks and rewards of practicing journalism in a high-impact, high-stress time.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374279622
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 11/27/2018
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Alan Rusbridger was editor in chief of Guardian News and Media from 1995 to 2015. He is the author of Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible and is currently chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Not Bowling Alone 1

2 More Than a Business 15

3 The New World 24

4 Editor 31

5 Shedding Power 44

6 Guardian … Unlimited 55

7 The Conversation 63

8 Global 72

9 Format Wars 80

10 Dog, Meet Dog 98

11 The Future Is Mutual 103

12 The Money Question 124

13 Bee Information 134

14 Creaking at the Seams 150

15 Crash 163

16 Phone Hacking 181

17 Let Us Pay? 197

18 Open and Shut 219

19 The Gatekeepers 244

20 Members? 269

21 The Trophy Newspaper 279

22 Do You Love Your Country? 301

23 Whirlwinds of Change 336

Epilogue 355

Timeline 380

Acknowledgements 383

Bibliography 389

Notes 393

Index 428

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