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The Future of News: Television, Newspapers, Wire Services, Newsmagazines
Will shrinking budgets and growing competition force network television news to compromise program quality? Can big-city newspapers improve circulation in the audiences advertisers want to reach? Will the wire services diversify into other areas of communications technology? What changes lie ahead for nation newsmagazines? In The Future of News , top media experts offer a probing analysis of the news business today and its place in American culture tomorrow. Charting the past decade's media trends, the authors show how an increasing segment of the population is rejecting broadly targeted media "packages" in favor of more focused, specialized information. Television network news producers, for example, face a growing viewer preference for cable news services, attention-grabbing local news programs, and lurid "infotainment" shows often broadcast by the networks own affiliates. At the same time, urban newspapers and national newsmagazines are losing readers―and revenues―despite increased news and feature coverage and frequent graphic "makeovers." And with the advent of new, competing technologies, the nation's wire services also face an uncertain future. Analyzing these and other trends, The Future of News offers a thoughtful and provocative preview of the media's role in the coming century.
296 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1992
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October 23, 2021
Yes, The Future of News invites instant comparison with ancient news.
Neither the editors nor the contributors mention the internet or the World Wide Web or blogs or social media.
Note: on April 30,1993, a computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee announced he had completed the source code for the world’s first web browser: WorldWideWeb.
Be prepared to feel sympathetic when you read the repeated optimistic assessments of the trends and possible futures of the news as we used to know it 30 years ago.
Read more of my book reviews and poems at
www.richardsubber.com
Neither the editors nor the contributors mention the internet or the World Wide Web or blogs or social media.
Note: on April 30,1993, a computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee announced he had completed the source code for the world’s first web browser: WorldWideWeb.
Be prepared to feel sympathetic when you read the repeated optimistic assessments of the trends and possible futures of the news as we used to know it 30 years ago.
Read more of my book reviews and poems at
www.richardsubber.com
Displaying 1 of 1 review