Beyond News: The Future of Journalism

Mitchell Stephens

Published by Columbia University Press 2014

Beyond News

The Future of Journalism

Mitchell Stephens

In the series Columbia Journalism Review Books

https://doi.org/10.7312/step15938

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About this book

A provocative, historically based argument that digital-era journalists need to aspire to much more than simply reporting the news.

Author / Editor information

Mitchell Stephens is a professor of journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Institute. His books include A History of News, named a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year"; The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word; Broadcast News; and Writing and Reporting the News. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Much of the research for this book was completed while Stephens was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School.

Reviews

...a feast, intelligent and candidly forthright.

Definitely of value to journalism students, this book will also appeal to those interested in access to informed perspectives and the fate of the "fourth estate."

Geneva Overholser, senior fellow, University of Southern California, Annenberg:
This engaging book tells us how journalism must change in order to better serve the times—and the public. Stephens calls for interpretation and insight, intelligence, and illumination. Beyond News offers all of these and more. Thought-provoking and a delight to read.

Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern University:
Persuasively written and filled with telling examples, Beyond News makes a powerful case for moving beyond the traditional five W's as guidelines for journalists to the five I's of what Stephens calls wisdom journalism: informed, intelligent, interpretive, insightful, and illuminating.

Linda Steiner, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland:
With his customary intelligence and brio, Mitchell Stephens argues for more ambitious, more valuable journalism. Stephens embodies the virtues of his hero Benjamin Franklin, writing with pungent wit and sharp insights. He has mined United States history for telling anecdotes showing that conventional news reporting is insufficient. He boldly makes the case that the interpretation of news could redeem both journalism and journalism professionals; moreover, since wisdom journalism both produces and requires knowledge, his vision sets the course for journalism education.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Quality Journalism Reconsidered Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. “Principles, Opinions, Sentiments, And Affections” The Journalism Out of Which the United States Was Born Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. “Yesterday’s Doings in All Continents” The Business of Selling News Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. “Circulators of Intelligence Merely” The Devaluation of News Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. “Bye-Bye to the Old ‘Who-What-When-Where’ ” The Return of Interpretation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. “Much as One May Try to Disappear from the Work” The Argument Against Objectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. “The World’s Immeasurable Babblement” What Does and Does Not Make Journalism Wise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
7. “Shimmering Intellectual Scoops” The Wisdom Journalist, the Journalism Organization, Their Audiences, and Our Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: Pilot project, eBook available to selected US libraries only
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264

eBook

Published: April 29, 2014
ISBN: 9780231536295