What Is Happening to News - The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism

Informationen zum Autor Jack Fuller is a Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers! serving as editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and as president of the Tribune Publishing Company. He is the author of seven novels! as well as News Values; Ideas for an Information Age! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Drawing on the discoveries of neuroscience! this book explains why the information overload of contemporary life makes us dramatically more receptive to sensational news! while rendering the staid! objective voice of standard journalism ineffective! and the result is a toxic mix that threatens to prove fatal to journalism as we know it. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the discoveries of neuroscience! this book explains why the information overload of contemporary life makes us dramatically more receptive to sensational news! while rendering the staid! objective voice of standard journalism ineffective! and the result is a toxic mix that threatens to prove fatal to journalism as we know it.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Fuller, Fuller Jack
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9780226005027
• ISBN: 978-0-226-00502-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; USA, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, United States of America, USA, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism