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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.

Public service media (PSM) have been the mainstay of Western European broadcasting for a number of decades. Yet despite a general political consensus in favour of PSM, recent technological, economic and political changes have led to a questioning of their value.

This new collection of essays explores the history of PSM in selected European countries, from their early establishment as the main media in many countries to charting their transformation and evolution in recent years. The contributions consider the political, economic and market-integration issues that impact PSM, while also highlighting the importance of the ideology that originally accompanied PSM in its initial years, to see how relevant they are in the contemporary world.

The book consists of two complementary parts:

Part I: Theoretical Aspects and Global Influences on Public Service Media in Europe

Part II: A Comparative Analysis of Public Service Media across Europe

With contributions from leading experts, the first part offers a thorough examination of the current concepts and conditions that influence PSM in Europe. The second offers a comparative study of PSM in several European countries including France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden.

Offering the most comprehensive study of the field to date, Public Service Media in Europe will be useful for students and researchers in public media, political communication, international and comparative media.

Even if journalism has always been in continuous transition, nowadays it seems to be going through a time of especial uncertainty and changes. Together with constant updating, abundance of information and innovation in the formats, genres and devices, nowadays participatory journalism represents one of the main challenges of journalism and the mass media. This book approaches this adaptation by analyzing different experiences and models of citizen participation and interactive journalists, besides paying special attention to the debate on the quality of user-generated content and the value of the relation between the media and audiences to strengthen the value of mediated communication.

Se cierran periódicos y cientos de periodistas van al paro. Y, sin embargo, hay que aceptar una realidad histórica: desde las actas que colocaban los césares romanos para dar informes de la vida del Imperio hasta los teléfonos inteligentes de hoy, se han colgado noticias, periódicamente, dando cuenta de lo que sucede en los lugares más remotos. Cambian los periódicos, las emisoras, los documentales filmados…, pero siempre seguirán existiendo los periodistas, los informadores, que con más o menos acierto cuentan lo que ocurre y, a veces, el porqué o el para qué ocurre lo que ocurre. En este libro un periodista profesional relata sus métodos y sus experiencias, y se confiesa afortunado. Ha cumplido con esa función universal: doce años en el País Vasco, doce años en Italia-Vaticano, más de doce años en Madrid siguiendo la Constitución y viajando por la Europa de las autonomías y de la Iglesia inquieta. Desde que siendo todavía un estudiante de Periodismo en Madrid publicó —sorteando la censura de entonces— una serie de reportajes que forzaron el cambio de todo el sistema de bibliotecas en España [¿cómo lo consiguió?] hasta el 23-F, en que le tocó ser el primero en tirarse al suelo a la entrada del palacio del Parlamento de Madrid. Desde vivir la realidad del País Vasco y, a pesar de no conocer el euskera, comprender que los vascos tienen una lengua que no puede ser rechazada por los hispano-hablantes, y hasta demostrar, a su vez, que los vascos no pueden rechazar el castellano porque «también es nuestro» (de los vascos), como confesó Michelena. Desde tomar un cafecito en casa del profesor Ratzinger, en su domicilio de Tubingia, durante na serie de viajes sobre la Iglesia inquieta, hasta recibirla confidencia directa del Papa Pablo VI,durante su viaje en el avión que les llevaba a Bogotá, cuando cogiendo al corresponsal por los hombros se dirigía a los españoles diciéndoles: España, España… Vosotros,españoles… Es necesario tener gran energía espiritual, gran valor, y… unidad». [¿Por qué? ¿Para qué? ¿Pablo VI era antiespañol?]. Desde dar cuenta día a día con respeto, pero libremente, de informaciones sobre el Vaticano, hasta sentirse obligado a hacer una delicadísima pregunta a la Madre Teresa de Calcuta en su presentación a los vaticanistas, en una sala de prensa abarrotada y en terrible silencio: «Usted, que viene desde las chabolas de Bangladés: ¿qué ha sentido al caminar por los salones de los palacios pontificios?». Desde el seguimiento, día a día, de diez Giros ciclistas por toda Italia (sin ni siquiera saber andar en bicicleta), hasta ser testigo de una escena sorprendente: el arzobispo de Westminster lanzando al aire su sombrero tras los hip, hip, hip, hurra rituales de los seminaristas católicos que aclamaban al arzobispo anglicano después de haber visitado al Papa. [¿Y qué pasó después?]. Desde ir de un lado a otro por Europa para analizar los estados complejos —regiones, naciones, autonomías de Alemania, Suiza, Bélgica, Italia, Irlanda y Yugoslavia— hasta tener que pasar revista, solemnemente, en el patio central del cuartel general de la Ertzaintza de Baviera a sus policías de a pie, en bicicleta, en uniformes de montaña, en tanquetas, en ambulancias o en helicóptero (sobre la Selva Negra hasta la frontera); y en Irlanda, estar contra la pared y con las metralletas del Ejército inglés en los riñones. Y tantos porqués y tantos para qué sobre pequeñas o grandes cosas.