A Future for the News: What&#039;s Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It

Jim A. Kuypers

doi:10.5771/9781538180242

Summary

A Future for the News: What’s Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Criticism of the mainstream news media is almost a national pastime in America, and widespread polling shows credibility ratings of journalists among the lowest of any institution in America, almost as low as that of Congress.

The institution of news media faces a plummeting morale of journalists; loss of readership; loss of viewers to competing, non-traditional venues for news; and so on. Moving from these problems to realistic solutions, this book serves as an instruction manual of sorts, with each chapter offering a pathway of improvement.

This collection brings together academics and news industry professionals with individual chapters taking a specific area of concern and making a case for particular solutions to the problems presented. Solutions range from ones designed for individual reporters to consider, to those that target newsrooms, the institution of journalism, and news consuming audiences. Together they aim to help a beleaguered institution restore itself as a fully functioning asset of the American Republic.

Contributors: Abe Aamidor, Brent Baker, Alex Christy, Jennifer Cox, Michelle Ferrier, John Gable, Katherine Haenschen, Michael Horning, Michael Max Knorpp, Jim A. Kuypers, Serena Miller, Cayce Myers, Stephen D. Perry, Soo Young Shin, Benjamin Voth, Adriel Warren.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-8022-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-8024-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 278
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Trust in the News No access Pages 13 - 30
Objectivity and Anti-Objectivity in Journalism No access Pages 31 - 52
Digital Dissonance No access Pages 53 - 68
Debate in Journalism Curriculum as a Solution to Ideological Normativity No access Pages 69 - 86
A Renewal of Journalistic Credibility through the Ancient Religious‌‌‌ Tradition of Jubilee No access Pages 87 - 106
Apples and Bananas No access Pages 107 - 128
Guardians of the Galaxy No access Pages 129 - 146
Solving Media Deserts Requires Going beyond Mapping News No access Pages 147 - 170
The Problem-Solving Solutions Journalism Model No access Pages 171 - 194
Media Monopolies and News Making No access Pages 195 - 214
Reporting on Low Voter Turnout Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy No access Pages 215 - 230
Democracy-Destroying Practices of the American Mainstream‌‌‌ News Media and Their Potential Solutions No access Pages 231 - 258
Index No access Pages 259 - 272
About the Contributors No access Pages 273 - 278