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The Watchdog Still Barks : How Accountability Reporting Evolved for the Digital Age / / Beth Knobel



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Autore: Knobel Beth Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Watchdog Still Barks : How Accountability Reporting Evolved for the Digital Age / / Beth Knobel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 pages)
Disciplina: 070.430973
070.4309730905
Soggetto topico: Investigative reporting - United States - History - 21st century
Journalism - Objectivity - United States - History - 21st century
Journalistic ethics - United States - History - 21st century
Online journalism - United States - History - 21st century
Soggetto non controllato: Free press
investigative journalism
journalism
newspapers
reporters
watchdog
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- 1. The Watchdog Still Barks -- 2. Bigger Means Better -- 3. The Workhorse of the Watchdogs -- 4. America’s Most Vulnerable -- 5. If Not Now, When? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role—its ability to monitor the work of the government. It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power—wasting public funds and making poor decisions—if the press is not shining its light with what is termed “accountability reporting.” This need has become especially clear in recent months, as the American press has come under virulent direct attack for carrying out its watchdog duties. Upending the traditional media narrative that watchdog accountability journalism is in a long, dismaying decline, The Watchdog Still Barks presents a study of how this most important form of journalism came of age in the digital era at American newspapers. Although the American newspaper industry contracted significantly during the 1990's and 2000's, Fordham professor and former CBS News producer Beth Knobel illustrates through empirical data how the amount of deep watchdog reporting on the newspapers’ studied front pages generally increased over time despite shrinking circulations, low advertising revenue, and pressure to produce the kind of soft news that plays well on social media. Based on the first content analysis to focus specifically on accountability journalism nationally, The Watchdog Still Barks examines the front pages of nine newspapers located across the United States to paint a broad portrait of how public service journalism has changed since 1991 as the advent of the Internet transformed journalism. This portrait of the modern newspaper industry shows how papers of varying sizes and ownership structures around the country marshaled resources for accountability reporting despite significant financial and technological challenges. The Watchdog Still Barks includes original interviews with editors who explain why they are staking their papers’ futures on the one thing that American newspapers still do better than any other segment of the media: watchdog and investigative reporting.
Titolo autorizzato: The Watchdog Still Barks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-8140-X
0-8232-7935-9
0-8232-7936-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814489803321
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