Beyond News: The Future of Journalism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231159388)

For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devices--fast, abundant, and mostly free--that era is ending. Our best journalists, Mitchell Stephens argues, instead must offer original, challenging perspectives--not just slightly more thorough accounts of widely reported events. His book proposes a new standard: "wisdom journalism," an amalgam of the more rarified forms of reporting--exclusive, enterprising, investigative--and informed, insightful, interpretive, explanatory, even opinionated takes on current events.

This book features an original, sometimes critical examination of contemporary journalism, both on- and offline, and it finds inspiration for a more ambitious and effective understanding of journalism in examples from twenty-first-century articles and blogs, as well as in a selection of outstanding twentieth-century journalism and Benjamin Franklin's eighteenth-century writings. Most attempts to deal with journalism's current crisis emphasize technology. Stephens emphasizes mindsets and the need to rethink what journalism has been and might become.

Author: Mitchell Stephens
ISBN-10: 0231159382
ISBN-13: 9780231159388
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/29/2014
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2014
Library Journal 05/15/2014 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2014
New York Review of Books 06/04/2015 pg. 43