ABSTRACT
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.
This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, 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.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part section I|48 pages
What Is Quality News Journalism?
chapter 2|18 pages
From the Insight Team to Wikileaks
part Section II|48 pages
Funding Quality News Journalism in the Face of Significant Economic and Technological Change
part Section III|124 pages
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
chapter 7|16 pages
One Newsroom, Many Possibilities
part Section IV|40 pages
Current Quality Levels in the Journalism of South Africa and Kenya, and What Needs to Be Done to Maintain or Improve Them
chapter 13|17 pages
Citizen Journalism in South Africa and Kenya
part Section V|42 pages
Case Studies from India and the Arab World