Future of Quality News Journalism

<p>In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available.</p><p>This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s <em>The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies</em>, includes a comparative analysis of possible alternative business models that may save the future of the quality news business across the developed, intermediate, and developing worlds. </p><p>Its detailed evaluation encompasses also the different ways in which wider key issues are affecting the prospects for quality news as a core ingredient of effectively working democracies. It focuses on the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Kenya, and selected parts of the Arab World, providing a comprehensive cross-cultural survey of different approaches to addressing these various issues. To keep the study firmly rooted in the "real world" the contributors include distinguished practitioners as well as experienced academics.</p> <p>Introduction <em>Peter Anderson </em><strong>Section One - What is Quality News Journalism? </strong>1. Defining and measuring quality news journalism, <em>Peter Anderson </em>2. From the Insight Team to Wikileaks, the continuing power of investigative journalism as a benchmark of quality news journalism, <em>Paul Lashmar </em><strong>Section Two - Funding quality news journalism in the face of significant economic and technological change </strong>3.Finding viable business models for developed world print and online newspaper sectors, <em>Chris Blackhurst </em>4.Finding viable business models for developed world broadcast news, <em>Paul Egglestone</em> 5.Finding viable business models for intermediate and developing world broadcast, print and online newspaper sectors<em> Motilola Akinfemisoye and Sally Deffor </em><strong>Section Three – A critical overview of current quality levels in the journalism of sample developed world states and what needs to be done to maintain or improve them</strong> 6. Quality journalism in the UK, in print and online <em>Michael Williams</em> 7.One newsroom, many possibilities: how the merging of digital and print journalism in American newsrooms is shaping the future of U.S. news media <em>Alex Ortolani</em> 8. American broadcast news and the future <em>Robert Beers </em>9. How the audience saved UK broadcast journalism<strong> </strong><em>Deborah Robinson and Andrew Hobbs </em>10.US citizen journalism and alternative online news sites, <em>Clyde Bentley </em>11. UK Social media, Citizen Journalism, and Alternative News <em>Clare Cook and Andrew Dickinson </em><strong>Section Four - Current quality levels in the journalism of South Africa and Kenya and what needs to be done to maintain or improve them </strong>12. The future of quality news journalism and media acccountability in South Africa and Kenya <em>George Ogola and Ylva Rodny-Gumede </em>13.Citizen Journalism in South Africa and Kenya: the quandary of quality and the prospects of growth <em>Dina Ligaga and Harry Dugmore </em><strong>Section Five – Case studies from India and the Arab World </strong>14. Where more is not better: Challenges facing quality news journalism in ‘shining’ India <em>Prasun Sonwal</em><em>kar</em> 15. (Re-)framing the ‘quality’ debate: The Arab media and its future journalism<em> George Ogola </em>Conclusion <em>Peter Anderson </em></p>