Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-138-60305-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 314 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies

This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry’s financial viability in an online world, arguing that widespread predictions of pending newspaper extinction are based mostly on misunderstandings of the industry’s operations.

Drawing from his training as a business journalist, Marc Edge undertakes a thorough analysis of annual financial statements provided by newspaper companies themselves to explain the industry’s arcane economics. This book contextualizes available data within the historical context in which various news publishers operate and outlines the economic history of UK newspapers. It also investigates how UK newspapers survived the 2008–09 recession, considering both national and provincial markets separately.

A rigorous look at an often-neglected aspect of the newspaper industry, this volume will be an essential read for scholars of media studies, journalism studies, and communication studies, especially those interested in studying journalism and news production as occupational identities.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edge, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction: A Pandemic Stress Test; 1. A Digital Dark Age for Newspapers; 2. The Staying Power of the Press; 3. Press Freedom and Proliferation; 4. The National Press: From Propaganda to Profit; 5. The Provincial Press: The Problem of Free; 6. What if Newspapers Aren’t Dying?

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Edge was a newspaper journalist for twenty years in his native Canada, holding senior positions as an editor and reporter at the Calgary Herald and Vancouver Province. He studied for his doctorate in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of five previous books including Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers (2014).