Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (649 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312598939 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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But far from expressing bitterness about the barrage of blogs and Web sites that have brought old media giants like his former employer to their knees, Doctor is an enthusiastic, even giddy champion of how advances in digital technology are reshaping news media. From Publishers Weekly Doctor spent 21 years working in various capacities for the Knight Ridder media empire until the company's sale in 2006, and he offers an overview of the very changes that swept him out the door. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
A new Digital Dozen, global powerhouses from The New York Times, News Corp, and CNN to NBC, the BBC, and NPR will dominate news across the globe, Locally, a colorful assortment of emerging news players, from Boston to San Diego, are rewriting the rules of city reporting, Newsonomics provides a new sense of the news we'll get on paper, on screen, on the phone, by blog, by podcast, and via Facebook and Twitter. Ken Doctor goes far beyond those headlines, taking an authoritative look at the fast-emerging future.The Twelve Laws of Newsonomics reveal the kinds of news that readers will get and that journalists (and citizens) will produce as we enter the first truly digital news decade. It also offers a new way to understand the why and how of the changes, and where the Googles, Yahoos and Microsofts fit in. The New
He served in key editorial and executive roles and then completed his career there as VP/Editorial, VP/Strategy and VP/Content Services for Knight Ridder Digital in San Jose. KEN DOCTOR spent twenty-one years with Knight Ridder, long the country's second-largest newspaper company until its sale in 2006. He writes the popular Content Bridges blog, serves as news industry analyst for the research and advisory firm Outsell, and appears frequently on television and radio as
Don't get too excited about a book that virtually ignores 90+% of U.S. dailies Dane S. Claussen Doctor writes this book from an elitist perspective, without ever telling the reader and, given his own journalistic background in places such as Eugene, Ore.; Boulder, Colo.; and St. Paul, Minn., perhaps without even realizing it. First, Chapter 1 is written as if every American is frantically searching the Web for the highest quality journalism about everything, all of the time. But while one-third (say, 33%) of the U.S. public uses Google every day, in a typical day less than 1% of the U.S. public is reading, on paper and online combined, The New York Time. "A Vivid Dispatch From the News Wars" according to Richard R. Edmonds. Ken Doctor's new book published Tuesday, "Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get," sounds as if it is going to be a treatise, but it's not. Sure, there is plenty of solid analysis, but "Newsonomics" reads more like a series of battlefield dispatches from the hunkered down camp of beleaguered old media and the loosely organized fronts opened by new media insurgents.And Doctor is a virtual Christiane Amanpour of the news wars -- quick-moving, observant, solid in his interpretations and engaged without being a cranky partisan. Doctor del. Gregory McMahan said An Interesting Take On The Ongoing Evolution of Journalism. After reading this book with an eye to what it means for the printed book (as opposed to newsprint and broadcast media), one single phrase from the text still follows me:"In the digital world, technology makes or breaks ideas."Newsonomics is more than just a blow-by-blow chronicle of the sweeping changes that have hammered the newspaper industry hard. Mr. Doctor is absolutely correct, again and again. I found myself not only agreeing with his assertions on the future development of journalism in the digital age (which encompasses all media, not just the print