Beyond News: The Future of Journalism (Columbia Journalism Review Books)

For A Century And A Half, Journalists Made A Good Business Out Of Selling The Latest News Or Selling Ads Next To That News. Now That News Pours Out Of The Internet And Our Mobile Devices - Fast, Abundant, And Mostly Free - That Era Is Ending. Our Best Journalists, Mitchell Stephens Argues, Instead Must Offer Original, Challenging Perspectives - Not Just Slightly More Thorough Accounts Of Widely Reported Events. His Book Proposes A New Standard: Wisdom Journalism, An Amalgam Of The More Rarified Forms Of Reporting - Exclusive, Enterprising, Investigative - And Informed, Insightful, Interpretive, Explanatory, Even Opinionated Takes On Current Events. -- From Dust Jacket. Introduction: Quality Journalism Reconsidered -- Principles, Opinions, Sentiments, And Affections: The Journalism Out Of Which The United States Was Born -- Yesterday's Doings In All Continents: The Business Of Selling News -- Circulators Of Intelligence Merely: The Devaluation Of News -- Bye-bye To The Old Who-what-when-where: The Return Of Interpretation -- Much As One May Try To Disappear From The Work: The Argument Against Objectivity -- The World's Immeasurable Babblement: What Does And Does Not Make Journalism Wise -- Shimmering Intellectual Scoops: The Wisdom Journalist, The Journalism Organization, Their Audiences, And Our Politics. Mitchell Stephens. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 187-220) And Index.