The Future of Journalism: Risks, Threats and Opportunities
This volume draws together research originally presented at the 2015 Future of Journalism Conference at Cardiff University, UK. The conference theme, Risks, Threats and Opportunities, highlighted five areas of particular concern for discussion and debate.
The first of these areas, Journalism and Social Media, explores how journalism and the role of the journalist are being redefined in the digital age of social networking, crowdsourcing and big data, and how the influence of media like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Reddit affects the gathering, reporting or consumption of news. Journalists at Risk assesses the key issues surrounding journalists safety and their right to report, as news organizations and their sources are increasingly targeted in war, conflict or crisis situations. The third area, Journalism Under Surveillance, asks what freedom of the press means in a post-Snowden climate. What are the new forms of censorship confronting journalism today, and what emergent tactics will help it to speak truth to power?
Journalism and the Fifth Estate examines the traditional ideals of the fourth estate, which risk looking outdated, if not obsolete, in the modern world. How much can we rely on citizen media to produce alternative forms of news reporting, and how can we reform mainstream media institutions to make them more open, transparent and accountable to the public? The final area, Journalisms Values, asks how journalisms ethical principles and moral standards are evolving in relation to the democratic cultures of communities locally, regionally, nationally or internationally. What are the implications of changing priorities for the education, training and employment of tomorrows journalists?
Every chapter in this volume engages with a pressing issue for the future of journalism, offering an original, thought-provoking perspective intended to help facilitate further dialogue and debate.
The chapters in this book were originally published in special issues of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies.
The editors of this book are based in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK.
Journalism Studies: Theory and Practice
Series editor: Bob Franklin, Cardiff School of Journalism,
Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK
The journal Journalism Studies was established at the turn of the new millennium by Bob Franklin. It was launched in the context of a burgeoning interest in the scholarly study of journalism and an expansive global community of journalism scholars and researchers. The ambition was to provide a forum for the critical discussion and study of journalism as a subject of intellectual enquiry but also an arena of professional practice. Previously, the study of journalism in the UK and much of Europe was a fairly marginal branch of the larger disciplines of media, communication and cultural studies; only a handful of universities offered degree programmes in the subject. Journalism Studies has flourished and succeeded in providing the intended public space for discussion of research on key issues within the field, to the point where in 2007 a sister journal, Journalism Practice, was launched to enable an enhanced focus on practice-based issues, as well as foregrounding studies of journalism education, training and professional concerns. Both journals are among the leading-ranked journals within the field and publish six issues annually, in electronic and print formats. More recently, 2013 witnessed the launch of a further companion journal, Digital Journalism, to provide a site for scholarly discussion, analysis and responses to the wide-ranging implications of digital technologies for the practice and study of journalism. From the outset, the publication of themed issues has been a commitment for all journals. Their purpose is first, to focus on highly significant or neglected areas of the field; second, to facilitate discussion and analysis of important and topical policy issues; and third, to offer readers an especially high quality and closely focused set of essays, analyses and discussions.
The Journalism Studies: Theory and Practice book series draws on a wide range of these themed issues from all journals and thereby extends the critical and public forum provided by them. The editor of the journals works closely with guest editors to ensure that the books achieve relevance for readers and the highest standards of research rigour and academic excellence. The series makes a significant contribution to the field of journalism studies by inviting distinguished scholars, academics and journalism practitioners to discuss and debate the central concerns within the field. It also reaches a wider readership of scholars, students and practitioners across the social sciences, humanities and communication arts, encouraging them to engage critically with, but also to interrogate, the specialist scholarly studies of journalism which this series provides.
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The Future of Journalism: Risks, Threats and Opportunities
Edited by Stuart Allan, Cynthia Carter, Stephen Cushion, Lina Dencik, Iaki Garcia-Blanco, Janet Harris, Richard Sambrook, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Andrew Williams
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Contents
Bob Franklin
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Andrew Williams, Richard Sambrook, Janet Harris, Iaki Garcia-Blanco, Lina Dencik, Stephen Cushion, Cynthia Carter and Stuart Allan
Stephen D. Reese
Inka Salovaara
Neil Thurman, Steve Schifferes, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, Stephen Hunt and Aljosha Karim Schapals
Monika Djerf-Pierre, Marina Ghersetti and Ulrika Hedman
