Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

Technology has disrupted the news industryâ€“ its relationships, forms, and business models â€“ but also provides no end of opportunities for improving, expanding, reimagining, and sustaining journalism. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News is a creative, thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of the possible future(s) of news by Professor Jeff Jarvis, who leads the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

To Jarvis, journalism helps a community better organize its knowledge so it can better organize itself: â€œBut we in the field came to define ourselves less by our value and mission and more by our media and tools â€” ink on pulp or slick paper, sound or images over airwaves. Now we have new tools to exploit. Those tools require new skills and create new value. But at the core, we serve citizens and communities.â€ He offers not a single definitive future of journalism and news, but a range of possibilities depending on how journalists and journalism evolve â€“ with the help of the â€œgeeksâ€ whose advances in media technology offer many opportunities for journalists and media entrepreneurs who are willing to think creatively and take risks.

Jarvis, one of the preeminent voices on emerging forms of journalism, news delivery, and community engagement, advises many media companies, startups, and foundations. He is a former president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications, and was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; and assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Country	USA
Author	Jeff Jarvis
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781939293749
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	CUNY Journalism Press
Manufacturer	CUNY Journalism Press
NumberOfPages	234
PublicationDate	2014-11-06
Publisher	CUNY Journalism Press
ReleaseDate	2014-11-06
Studio	CUNY Journalism Press

Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

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