Geeks Bearing Gifts
Technology has disrupted the news industry� its relationships, forms, and business models � but also provides no end of opportunities for improving, expanding, reimagining, and sustaining journalism. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News is a creative, thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of the possible future(s) of news by Professor Jeff Jarvis, who leads the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

To Jarvis, journalism helps a community better organize its knowledge so it can better organize itself: �But we in the field came to define ourselves less by our value and mission and more by our media and tools � ink on pulp or slick paper, sound or images over airwaves. Now we have new tools to exploit. Those tools require new skills and create new value. But at the core, we serve citizens and communities.� He offers not a single definitive future of journalism and news, but a range of possibilities depending on how journalists and journalism evolve � with the help of the �geeks� whose advances in media technology offer many opportunities for journalists and media entrepreneurs who are willing to think creatively and take risks.

Jarvis, one of the preeminent voices on emerging forms of journalism, news delivery, and community engagement, advises many media companies, startups, and foundations. He is a former president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, and was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; and assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
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Geeks Bearing Gifts
Technology has disrupted the news industry� its relationships, forms, and business models � but also provides no end of opportunities for improving, expanding, reimagining, and sustaining journalism. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News is a creative, thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of the possible future(s) of news by Professor Jeff Jarvis, who leads the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

To Jarvis, journalism helps a community better organize its knowledge so it can better organize itself: �But we in the field came to define ourselves less by our value and mission and more by our media and tools � ink on pulp or slick paper, sound or images over airwaves. Now we have new tools to exploit. Those tools require new skills and create new value. But at the core, we serve citizens and communities.� He offers not a single definitive future of journalism and news, but a range of possibilities depending on how journalists and journalism evolve � with the help of the �geeks� whose advances in media technology offer many opportunities for journalists and media entrepreneurs who are willing to think creatively and take risks.

Jarvis, one of the preeminent voices on emerging forms of journalism, news delivery, and community engagement, advises many media companies, startups, and foundations. He is a former president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, and was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; and assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
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Geeks Bearing Gifts

Geeks Bearing Gifts

by Jeff Jarvis
Geeks Bearing Gifts

Geeks Bearing Gifts

by Jeff Jarvis

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Technology has disrupted the news industry� its relationships, forms, and business models � but also provides no end of opportunities for improving, expanding, reimagining, and sustaining journalism. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News is a creative, thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of the possible future(s) of news by Professor Jeff Jarvis, who leads the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

To Jarvis, journalism helps a community better organize its knowledge so it can better organize itself: �But we in the field came to define ourselves less by our value and mission and more by our media and tools � ink on pulp or slick paper, sound or images over airwaves. Now we have new tools to exploit. Those tools require new skills and create new value. But at the core, we serve citizens and communities.� He offers not a single definitive future of journalism and news, but a range of possibilities depending on how journalists and journalism evolve � with the help of the �geeks� whose advances in media technology offer many opportunities for journalists and media entrepreneurs who are willing to think creatively and take risks.

Jarvis, one of the preeminent voices on emerging forms of journalism, news delivery, and community engagement, advises many media companies, startups, and foundations. He is a former president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, and was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; and assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940150637955
Publisher: CUNY Journalism Press
Publication date: 10/31/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 234
Sales rank: 796,758
File size: 716 KB

About the Author

Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do?, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, and Gutenberg the Geek. He blogs at Buzzmachine.com and is cohost of the podcast �This Week in Google."
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