Journalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge
of the Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of
journalism and democracy. This is the compelling argument set forth
in this timely new text, drawing on the most extensive ethnographic
fieldwork in American newsrooms since the 1970s.
David Ryfe argues that journalists are unable or unwilling to
innovate for a variety of reasons: in part because habits are
sticky and difficult to dislodge; in part because of their
strategic calculation that the cost of change far exceeds its
benefit; and in part because basic definitions of what journalism
is, and what it is for, anchor journalism to tradition even when
journalists prefer to change. The result is that journalism is
unraveling as an integrated social field; it may never again be a
separate and separable activity from the broader practice of
producing news. One thing is certain: whatever happens next, it
will have dramatic consequences for the role journalism plays in
democratic society and perhaps will transform its basic meaning and
purpose.
"Can Journalism Survive? "is essential and provocative reading
for all concerned with the future of journalism and society.
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