Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age

C. W. Anderson

Temple University Press, Jan 18, 2013 - Computers - 217 pages

Breaking down the walls of the traditional newsroom, Rebuilding the News traces the evolution of news reporting as it moves from print to online. As the business models of newspapers have collapsed, author C. W. Anderson chronicles how bloggers, citizen journalists, and social networks are implicated in the massive changes confronting journalism.

Through a combination of local newsroom fieldwork, social-network analysis, and online archival research, Rebuilding the News places the current shifts in news production in socio-historical context. Focusing on the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Anderson presents a gripping case study of how these papers have struggled to adapt to emerging economic, social, and technological realities.

As he explores the organizational, networked culture of journalism, Anderson lays bare questions about the future of news-oriented media and its evolving relationship with “the public” in the digital age.

About the author

C. W. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island (City University of New York). He has published in numerous academic journals and writes occasionally for the Nieman Journalism Lab and the Atlantic Online. He has contributed chapters to edited volumes including The Social Media Reader, Making Our Media, Making Online News,and the Journalism Studies Handbook.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age
• Author: C. W. Anderson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Temple University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1439909350, 9781439909355
• Length: 217 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Information Technology; Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism; Social Science / General; Social Science / Media Studies