Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy - Couverture rigide

Cagé, Julia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674659759 ISBN 13 : 9780674659759

Editeur : The Belknap Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The media are in crisis. Confronted by growing competition and sagging advertising revenue, news operations in print, on radio and TV, and even online are struggling to reinvent themselves. Many have gone under. For too many others, the answer has been to lay off reporters, join conglomerates, and lean more heavily on generic content. The result: in a world awash with information, news organisations provide citizens with less and less in-depth reporting and a narrowing range of viewpoints. If democracy requires an informed citizenry, this trend spells trouble. Julia Cage explains the economics and history of the media crisis in Europe and America, and she presents a bold solution. The answer, she says, is a new business model: a nonprofit media organisation, midway between a foundation and a joint stock company. Cage shows how this model would enable the media to operate independent of outside shareholders, advertisers, and government, relying instead on readers, employees, and innovative methods of financing, including crowdfunding. Cage's prototype is designed to offer new ways to share and transmit power. It meets the challenges of the digital revolution and the realities of the twenty-first century, inspired by a central idea: that news, like education, is a public good. Saving the Media will be a key document in a debate whose stakes are nothing less crucial than the vitality of democracy.

Revue de presse :

"[A] lucid and succinct analysis... Saving the Media is an essential and timely contribution to a debate with high stakes democracy itself." - New Internationalist

Saving the Media provides an excellent portrayal of the economic challenges facing the news media, newspapers in particular, and the implications these have on our democratic institutions. - --Henry Milner, University of Montreal

"[A] highly readable study focusing on that most traditional of media, the print press... an informative and yet lively read with a well-balanced mix of facts and statistics." --Times Higher Education

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Belknap Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0674659759
• ISBN 13: 9780674659759
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176