Periodismo

Ta Kung Pao is one of the most influential newspapers in modern China. The inaugural issue was published in Tianjing in 1912, and it was subsequently published in Shanghai, Hankou, Hong Kong, Guiling and Chongqing, followed by Hong Kong and Macao after 1949. The last mainland China issue of TKP was published in 1966. TKP has witnessed some of the key events in the creation of modern day China, including the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the new republic. It was then designated by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC as the government's official newspaper covering all international, political and economic news. Now available outside of China for the very first time, this insightful book is a detailed study of the evolution of the media in China, as seen through the history and the pages of TKP. It's a faithful documentation of China's political and economic modernisation. Rong Xinchun discloses for the very first time the stories behind the stories, and the paper's true status and function within China's foreign relations strategies. The coverage includes the author's dissections of the key articles, commentaries and editorials. These documents are important historical material for anybody studying the development of modern day China.

23 collected interviews with the renowned French philosopher and cultural commentator, Jean Baudrillard

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

From familiar themes to the less well understood aspects of his thought, these interviews give you an overview of Baudrillard's ideas – without the jargon typical of written texts. Read as Baudrillard himself discusses, explains and elaborates on his ideas, making this collection essential for understanding many of his other works.
Key Features

The first book of collected interviews with Baudrillard for over two decades
Valuable to new and seasoned readers of Baudrillard and to students and academics in philosophy, sociology, literary theory, art history, architecture, film and photography, cultural studies, human geography and media studies
Gathers many unknown and otherwise unavailable pieces into one volume

List of Interviews

Interview 1: Too Bad about Patagonia

Interview 2: Disappearance beyond Disappearance

Interview 3: After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future

Interview 4: The Possibility of Another Game

Interview 5: Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen?

Interview 6: A Time of Promiscuity

Interview 7: Forgetting Critiques

Interview 8: Cover Story

Interview 9: Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously

Interview 11: Vivisecting the 90s

Interview 11: Things Surpass Themselves

Interview 12: On the New Technologies

Interview 13: I’m Not a Prophet

Interview 14: Endangered Species?

Interview 15: Hate: A Last Sign of Life

Interview 16: Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture

Interview 17: Between Difference and Singularity

Interview 18: The Catastrophe of Paradox

Interview 19: This is the Fourth World War

Interview 20: The Matrix Decoded

Interview 21: Continental Drift

Interview 22: The Art of Disappearing

Interview 23: The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular

El terremoto digital que comenzó a mediados de la última década del siglo XX tras el surgimiento de Internet, y que se extiende hasta hoy con la revolución de las redes sociales y los dispositivos móviles, erosiona tanto la relevancia social como la sustentabilidad económica de la industria de los medios de comunicación.

Acostumbrados por décadas a exitosos modelos industriales de producción y distribución de las noticias, con altos niveles de rentabilidad y confianza pública, los ejecutivos de las compañías de medios y los periodistas deben adaptarse ahora a nuevas formas de consumo propiciadas por la aceleración tecnológica.

La prensa de calidad necesita refundar sus modelos periodísticos, organizacionales y de negocio para atravesar con éxito la transición digital. Reconvertir el portfolio de productos, y principalmente la propuesta de valor social, junto a una transformación de la cultura y los perfiles profesionales, son imperativos de la época.

Los compiladores y autores de este libro, cada uno desde su campo profesional o académico, ofrecen miradas y reflexiones para comprender la naturaleza disruptiva de los cambios que enfrentan los medios de comunicación. En conjunto, construyen un plan de acción inmediato para el futuro sustentable de los medios.

Porque el momento es ahora.

Media companies are in the midst of fundamental transformation. For those reconfiguring their business models, consolidation into larger entities seems an obvious strategy for survival and there's growing pressure for a more relaxed approach to concentration of media ownership. Such industrial pragmatism, however, collides with the need for diversity of voice in a healthy democracy. Such tensions raise crucial questions about the nature and significance of different ownership regimes for journalism. It's important that we understand the trajectory of current policy thinking and explore alternative and more creative policy initiatives which might promote diversity without prejudicing business interests. Media Ownership, Journalism and Diversity analyses these issues within the UK using evidence gathered from personal interviews with senior policy makers and through analysis of evidence to a 2108 House of Lords select inquiry committee on news and media ownership, for which the author was specialist advisor. The material is set within a broader international context, and up through the period of the crises enveloping News Corp.

So….what just happened?

The people who fuel our civic conversation—reporters, writers, storytellers—have been asking each other that question a lot lately. So have people who consume their work. Both agree: Waves of technological change have greatly altered the news. How, exactly? Hard to say.

This much is known: What adds up to what we are calling The Great Disruption upended certainties, assumptions, and behavior in media institutions, as well as the lives of the men and women who occupied those institutions. The Disruption is changing what journalists do and thus how we think as citizens. What just happened?

Media gurus often speak with the confidence of con men. We are not them. Tales From the Great Disruption has no grand theory. Instead, it presents original reporting about what did happen when the waves of change struck and what came in their wake. The first half of the book, “The Gathering Storm,” looks back for insight while its second half, “All the Space in the World,” explores the new context.

These are stories of people and, as such they are about conflict, joy, terror, disappointment, betrayal, loss, and discovery. They illuminate a complex period still in motion. Taken together, they offer lessons on how journalism can better face its Great Disruption.

The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics Contributors: Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard Todd Stafford, and Øyvind Vågnes The Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his ground-breaking journalism Palestine (1993) and Safe Area to Gorade (2100), to Footnotes in Gaza (2009) and his most recent book The Great War (2013), a graphic history of World War I. First in the new series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, this edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies. Sacco's work has already found a place in some of the foundational scholarship in comics studies, and this book solidifies his role as one of the most important comics artists today. Sections focus on how Sacco's comics journalism critiques and employs the "standard of objectivity" in mainstream reporting, what aesthetic principles and approaches to lived experience can be found in his comics, how Sacco employs the space of the comics page to map history and war, and the ways that his comics function in the classroom and as human rights activism. The Comics of Joe Sacco offers definitive, exciting approaches to some of the most important–and necessary–comics today, by one of the most acclaimed journalist-artists of our time. DANIEL WORDEN, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism and the coeditor of Oil Culture.

The Media Convergence Handbook sheds new light on the complexity of media convergence and the related business challenges. Approaching the topic from a managerial, technological as well as end-consumer perspective, it acts as a reference book and educational resource in the field. Media convergence at business level may imply transforming business models and using multiplatform content production and distribution tools. However, it is shown that the implementation of convergence strategies can only succeed when expectations and aspirations of every actor involved are taken into account. Media consumers, content producers and managers face different challenges in the process of media convergence.

Volume I of the Media Convergence Handbook encourages an active discourse on media convergence by introducing the concept through general perspective articles and addressing the real-world challenges of conversion in the publishing, broadcasting and social media sectors.

Das Thema Migration ist im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs angekommen. Aber die Perspektiven der Migranten kommen in der Medienöffentlichkeit zu kurz. Die deutsche Integrationspolitik strebt deshalb an, die Zahl der Journalisten mit Migrationshintergrund zu erhöhen. Damit solche Bemühungen nicht ins Leere gehen, sind Kenntnisse wichtig, wo bei Migranten Neigungen zum Journalistenberuf bestehen und wo es bei Medien die Bereitschaft zur Beschäftigung von Journalisten mit Einwanderungsgeschichte gibt. Auskunft darüber gibt das Buch anhand einer Leitfaden-Befragung im Personalmanagement privatwirtschaftlicher Medienbetriebe und einer standardisierten Befragung von Jugendlichen in einer Großstadt.​ Am Beispiel einer Schreibwerkstatt wird gezeigt, wie Jugendliche an den Journalismus herangeführt werden können.

The growing passivity and changing bias of Western journalists is widely acknowledged. Journalism is increasingly hollowed out by writers who are no longer gathering news but rather churning out unsourced information, PR texts and snippets found online. Behind this dubious practice is an increasingly invested corporate sector whose stake in the mainstream media as a mouthpiece has exponentially increased in the last few decades.

In Complacency and Collusion, Keith J. Butterick focuses on the content and practice of financial and business journalism, giving compelling explanations for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business. He cuts through the misreporting that has occurred since the financial crisis and makes clear the inadequacies of articles in prestigious papers and magazines, such as the Economist and Financial Times. In concluding his analysis he reflects on what the growth and spread of complacent, complicit corporate journalism will mean for the future of a free media.

Complacency and Collusion is one of the first critical studies of the field of business and financial journalism to be suitable for the graduate reader. It will serve as both a valuable teaching resource and a penetrating political commentary on contemporary journalism.

Media and Journalism: New Approaches to Theory and Practice (Third Edition) is a complete introduction to media and journalism, exploring the changing relationship between these areas. It introduces key concepts and theoretical approaches in media studies, as well as provides practical training to develop key journalism skills. This approach ensures that students develop both the broad knowledge base and professional skills required for future careers in journalism, public relations and communications.

The third edition is divided into five parts, with the focus becoming progressively broaderâfrom journalism and news writing, to the larger mediasphere, to the media industries themselves, to the social, cultural and technological contexts in which these industries function. This encourages students to follow the flow of information and ideas from news production through to dissemination and negotiation, revealing how important journalism and media studies are to each other.