Description
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of modern-day newspapers by exploring the digital transition of the New Orleans
Times-Picayune as a microcosm of the industry. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and professionals across a range of areas, it explores the economic, political, and social context of the move of the largest daily newspaper (to date) from print to the Web. In doing so it paints a complete picture of the current shape of the newspaper industry.
While the circumstances in New Orleans anchor the book, it also includes exploration of other for-profit and nonprofit business models for newspapers; differences in how communities handle news during a crisis; implications of the digital divide; and, how different communities believe a decline in print journalism impacts politics and the functioning of local government.
By researching in real-time the metamorphosis of the New Orleans
Times-Picayune, the book shows what news organizations, journalists, news consumer
Trade Review«Indem der Band hartnäckig nach der realen Praxis und Bedeutung von Journalismus in Print, TV und Online fragt, liefert er ein äusserst plastisches und die zentralen Fragen konsequent verfolgendes Tableau der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Print und Online in den USA.»
(Markus Bauer, MEDIENwissenschaften 04/2016)
Table of ContentsContents: Amy Reynolds: A Symbiotic Relationship: How Changes in Journalism, Technology, and Public Life Impact Each Other – Jinx Coleman Broussard/Benjamin Rex LaPoe: A History of the New Orleans Times-Picayune – Andrea Miller: The Importance of Local News in Tragedy - The Gulf Coast’s Dual Disasters and Beyond – Jerry Ceppos: How We Got Here and What It Means for New Orleans News Consumers – Amy Reynolds: Economic Models and Business Strategies for the Digital Media Environment – Paromita Saha: An Ecological Perspective on the Evolution of New Orleans’ News Media – Chris Roberts: Meanwhile, in Alabama: Cuts and Hiring, Consolidation and Expansion – Andrea Miller/Young Kim: Is Digital Content Better? – Lance Porter: Digital, Social and Mobile: The Multiplatform News Future of New Orleans – Nicole Smith Dahmen: Photojournalism in the Digital Age – Amy Reynolds/Lindsay M. McCluskey: Government and the Digital Fourth Estate.
