Full Description
The impact of cyberspace on newsprint journalism is at the core of this text. After a brief history of U.S. news dailies and weeklies it turns attention to those journals' status today. A wide range of forces that impinge on their success and failure are explored, including the decline of their relevancy for an increasing percentage of the population. Newspapers' prospects for the future is the primary focus as papers curtail their dependency on historically physically-delivered patterns to shift to more economical and faster methods of supplying the news. Rivals for the attention of traditional readers are burgeoning. Possibilities for the outcome over the next decade are investigated. The profound effects of change on newsrooms, advertising, circulation, economics, and the place of newspapers and their communities are fully examined.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Blazing a Paperless Trail
1. The Times of Our Lives
2. A Nation of News Readers
3. The Last Word
4. The Only Thing Constant
5. Supply and Demand
6. The Bad News Is
7. Out of the Hybrid an Oxymoron
8. You Get What You Pay For
9. Paywalls: Like Hitting Pay Dirt?
10. An Endangered Species
11. Cutting to the Paper Chase
12. Are We Missing Anything?
13. An Alternating Landscape
14. Families in Distress
15. Falling from Grace to Disgrace
16. Connecting in a Multimedia Epoch
17. Digital Mags: Feel the Magic?
18. The Future of the Form
Epilogue: Gimme Five
Appendix: Highlights of American Newspaper History
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
