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David O. Dowling critically examines how podcasting and its evolving conventions are transforming reporting-and even reshaping journalism's core functions and identity.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Mainstreaming of Podcast Journalism
1. Podcasting the Pandemic: Beyond the NPR Revolution
2. The Perils and Promise of True Crime Podcast Journalism
3. Intellectual Culture
4. Sound Transactions: Audience and the Advent of Paid Podcasts
5. Charting the Far Right
6. Voices from the Margins
7. The Profit Motive: Brands as Publishers
Epilogue: Podcasting as Digital Literary Journalism
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Info autore
David O. Dowling is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He is the author of several books, including Immersive Longform Storytelling: Media, Technology, Audience (2019) and The Gamification of Digital Journalism: Innovation in Journalistic Storytelling (2021).
Riassunto
Podcasting’s stratospheric rise has inspired a new breed of audio reporting. Offering immersive storytelling for a binge-listening audience as well as reaching previously underserved communities, podcasts have become journalism’s most rapidly growing digital genre, buoying a beleaguered news industry. Yet many concerns have been raised about this new medium, such as the potential for disinformation, the influence of sponsors on content, the dominance of a few publishers and platforms, and at-times questionable adherence to journalistic principles.
David O. Dowling critically examines how podcasting and its evolving conventions are transforming reporting—and even reshaping journalism’s core functions and identity. He considers podcast reporting’s most influential achievements as well as its most consequential ethical and journalistic shortcomings, emphasizing the reciprocal influences between podcasting and traditional and digital journalism. Podcasting, both as a medium and a business, has benefited from the blurring of boundaries separating news from entertainment, editorial from advertising, and neutrality from subjectivity. The same qualities and forces that have allowed podcasting to bypass the limitations of traditional categories, expand the space of social and political discourse, and provide openings for marginalized voices have also permitted corporations to extend their reach and far-right firebrands to increase their influence. Equally attentive to the medium’s strengths and flaws, this is a vital book for all readers interested in how podcasting has changed journalism.
