New Book: Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights

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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights:
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
http://bit.ly/f4612m

From the Press Release:

The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this new and shifting terrain.

In Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights, celebrated media analysts Robert W. McChesney and Victor Pickard have assembled thirty-two illuminating pieces on the crisis in journalism, revised and updated for this volume. Featuring some of today’s most incisive and influential commentators, this comprehensive collection contextualizes the predicament faced by the news media industry through a concise history of modern journalism, a hard-hitting analysis of the structural and financial causes of news media’s sudden collapse, and deeply informed proposals for how the vital role of journalism might be rescued from impending disaster.

The contributors include (in alphabetical order):

Craig Aaron * Bruce Ackerman * Eric Alterman * C. Edwin Baker * Yochai Benkler * Rodney Benson * Frank Blethen * Ryan Blethen * Jessica Clark * Mark Cooper * FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps * Geoffrey Cowan * Michael X. Delli Carpini * Leonard Downie, Jr. * Thomas Frank * Todd Gitlin * Juan Gonzalez * James T. Hamilton * Chris Hedges * Janine Jackson * Robert W. McChesney * Laura McGann * Pamela Newkirk * John Nichols * Victor Pickard * Shawn Powers * Michael Schudson * Clay Shirky * David Simon * Paul Starr * Joseph Torres * Nikki Usher * Tracy Van Slyke * Matt Welch * David Westphal * Bruce A. Williams

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1. Here are some of the book's contributors

Speaking about the future of journalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky-YPUhXwM