New Media, Old News

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Drowning or Waving? New media, Journalism and Democracy - Natalie Fenton
PART TWO: NEW MEDIA AND NEWS IN CONTEXT
Technology Foretold - James Curran
The Political Economy of the 'New' News Environment - Des Freedman
An Ethical Deficit? Accountability, Norms, and the Material Conditions of Contemporary Journalism - Angela Phillips, Nick Couldry, Des Freedman
PART THREE: NEW MEDIA AND NEWS IN PRACTICE
Culture Shock: New Media and Organizational Change in the BBC - Peter Lee-Wright
Old Sources: New Bottles - Angela Phillips
Liberal Dreams and the Internet: A Case Study - James Curran and Tamara Witschge
PART FOUR: NEW MEDIA, NEWS SOURCES, NEW JOURNALISM?
Politics, Journalism and New Media: Virtual Iron Cages in the New Culture of Capitalism - Aeron Davis
New Online News Sources and Writer-Gatherers - Nick Couldry
NGOs, New Media and the Mainstream News: News from Everywhere - Natalie Fenton
PART FIVE: NEW MEDIA, NEWS CONTENT AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
A New News Order? Online News Content Examined - Joanna Redden and Tamara Witschge
Futures of the News: International Considerations and Further Reflections - Rodney Benson

A leading in the field, Natalie Fenton is Reader and Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre, and co-Director of the new Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy.

This important book brilliantly explores the contradiction between the transforming potential of new technologies and the stifling constraints of the free market and corporate powerGreg PhiloGlasgow University Media Group



In the great and significant debate about the future of news and information, Natalie Fenton has identified important new players and new ways in which society will be educated in the world in which they function. Few people have come so freshly and perceptively to describe the ethical and other challenges that occur when old reportorial modes are so substantially alteredMonroe PriceDirector, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania



Everyone knows that the internet "changes everything." But hardly anyone has studied it systematically enough to say anything more specific about how exactly it changes things. Here's a collection that provides some real evidence about how the internet is and isn't changing journalism and political communication. The essays that make up this volume are rich with real-life data about the working lives of journalists, bloggers, politicians and more, and also with sophisticated insight about how technology interacts with political and economic change. The analysis it provides is broad and nuanced, giving a complex sense of the range of different forms of news and debate that exist onlineDan HallinProfessor and Chair, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego



This is journalism scholarship at its very best. New Media, Old News offers a radical and provocative assessment of the complexities of news, news media and journalism in the age of digital media and global news. Authoritative, yet accessible, this collection will undoubtedly shape scholarly and public debate about journalism and new media. But it also articulates a passionate commitment to the view that - more than