If It Ain't Broke, Break It - How Corporate Journalism Killed the Arkansas Gazette

Zusammenfassung Based on the author's dissertation (Ph.D.--University of Southern Mississippi! 2012). Klappentext The Arkansas Gazette! under the ownership of the Heiskell/Patterson family! was one of the most honoured newspapers of twentieth-century American journalism. But wounds from a fierce newspaper war against another local owner combined with changing economic realities! led to the family's decision to sell to the Gannett Corporation in 1986. Whereas the Heiskell/Patterson family had been committed to quality journalism! Gannett was focused on the bottom line.

About the author

Donna Lampkin Stephens worked at the Arkansas Gazette for six years, leaving when the company closed. She is now professor of journalism at the University of Central Arkansas and the producer of the films The Old Gray Lady: Arkansas's First Newspaper and The Crisis Mr. Faubus Made: The Role of the Arkansas Gazette in the Central High Crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Lampkin Stephens
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9781557288141
• ISBN: 978-1-55728-814-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism