Democracy-destroying practices of the American mainstream news media and their potential solutions / Jim A. Kuypers. Trust in the news: newsroom attempts and failures and the promise of helpful technology / Michael Horning -- Objectivity and anti-objectivity in journalism / William Max Knorpp -- Digital dissonance: rebuilding trust in news in an age of misinformation, filter bubbles , and bias / John Gable and Adriel Warren and contributions by Isaiah Anthony and Julie Mastrine -- Debate in journalism curriculum as a solution to ideological normativity / Ben Voth -- A renewal of journalistic credibility through the ancient religious tradition of Jubilee / Stephen D. Perry -- Apples and bananas: the necessity of differentiating facts and opinion for democracy-nurturing fact-checking / Alex Christy and Brent Baker -- Guardians of the galaxy: how the media stumbles when it seeks to protect historically underserved and marginalized communities, and never more so than when reporting on the relationship between Blacks and Jews / Abe Aamidor -- Solving media deserts requires going beyond mapping news / Michelle Ferrier -- The problem-solving solutions journalism model: treating news audiences as problem solvers in solutions journalism / Serena Miller, Soo Young Shin, and Jennifer Cox -- Media monopolies, news making: an analysis of how media conglomeration affects the marketplace of ideas / Cayce Myers -- Reporting on low voter turnout is a self-fulfilling prophecy / Katherine Haenschen -- Democracy-destroying practices of the American mainstream news media and their potential solutions / Jim A. Kuypers.
Summary:
"A Future for the News: What's Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Criticism of the mainstream news media is almost a national pastime in America, and widespread polling shows credibility ratings of journalists among the lowest of any institution in America, almost as low as that of Congress. The institution of news media faces a plummeting morale of journalists; loss of readership; loss of viewers to competing, non-traditional venues for news; and so on. Moving from these problems to realistic solutions, this book serves as an instruction manual of sorts, with each chapter offering a pathway of improvement. This collection brings together academics and news industry professionals with individual chapters taking a specific area of concern and making a case for particular solutions to the problems presented. Solutions range from ones designed for individual reporters to consider, to those that target newsrooms, the institution of journalism, and news consuming audiences. Together they aim to help a beleaguered institution restore itself as a fully functioning asset of the American Republic"-- Provided by publisher.
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