A Future for the News

What's Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It

Jim A. Kuypers (Anthology Editor)

A Future for the News

What's Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It

Jim A. Kuypers (Anthology Editor)

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A Future for the News: What’s Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Criticism of the mainstream news media is almost a national pastime in America, and widespread polling shows credibility ratings of journalists among the lowest of any institution in America, almost as low as that of Congress.
The institution of news media faces a plummeting morale of journalists; loss of readership; loss of viewers to competing, non-traditional venues for news; and so on. Moving from these problems to realistic solutions, this book serves as an instruction manual of sorts, with each chapter offering a pathway of improvement.
This collection brings together academics and news industry professionals with individual chapters taking a specific area of concern and making a case for particular solutions to the problems presented. Solutions range from ones designed for individual reporters to consider, to those that target newsrooms, the institution of journalism, and news consuming audiences. Together they aim to help a beleaguered institution restore itself as a fully functioning asset of the American Republic.
Contributors: Abe Aamidor, Brent Baker, Alex Christy, Jennifer Cox, Michelle Ferrier, John Gable, Katherine Haenschen, Michael Horning, Michael Max Knorpp, Jim A. Kuypers, Serena Miller, Cayce Myers, Stephen D. Perry, Soo Young Shin, Benjamin Voth, Adriel Warren.

Intro. Problems in the Mainstream News and How to Fix Them
Jim A. Kuypers
Chapter 1. Trust in the News: Newsroom Attempts and Failures and the Promise of Helpful Technology
Michael Horning
Chapter 2. Objectivity and Anti-Objectivity in Journalism
William Max Knorpp
Chapter 3. Journalist Filter Bubbles, Media Bias, and Declining Trust in News: How to Restore Confidence in Journalism
John Gable and Adriel Warren
Chapter 4. Reforming Journalism Credibility: Debate as a Pathway to Journalistic Renaissance
Benjamin Voth
Chapter 5.A Renewal of Journalistic Credibility through the Ancient Religious Tradition of Jubilee
Stephen D. Perry
Chapter 6. Apples and Bananas: The Necessity of Differentiating Facts and Opinion for Democracy-Nurturing Fact-Checking
Alex Christy and Brent Baker
Chapter 7. Inclusion and Objectivity: How the Media Stumbles When It Seeks to Protect Historically Underserved and Marginalized Communities
Abe Aamidor
Chapter 8. Solving Media Deserts Requires Going Beyond Mapping News
Michelle Ferrier
Chapter 9. The Problem-Solving Solutions Journalism Model: Treating News Audiences as Problem Solvers in Solutions Journalism
Serena Miller, Soo Young Shin, and Jennifer Cox
Chapter 10. Media Monopolies, News Making, and How Media Conglomeration Affects the Marketplace of Ideas
Cayce Myers
Chapter 11. Talking About Low Voter Turnout is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Katherine Haenschen
Chapter 12. Democracy-Destroying Practices of the American Mainstream News Media and Their Potential Solutions
Jim A. Kuypers
Index
About the Contributors

Product details

Published	15 Nov 2023
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	328
ISBN	9781538180235
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	9 b/w photos; 2 tables; 2 textboxes
Dimensions	227 x 150 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Jim A. Kuypers

This book’s 12 chapters (from 18 different authors) address some of the news media’s contemporary challenges, such as the public’s declining trust in journalism. Kuypers, the editor, provides an introductory overview of each chapter’s contributions. Chapters offer background information on a selected topic and suggested solutions. Kuypers's clear writing is accessible to journalism professionals and graduate student audiences. The book is an excellent companion to Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen's Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism (CH, Apr'24, 61-2132). Recommended for libraries in higher education with journalism and mass communication degree programs. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.

Choice Reviews
A Future for the News provides not only a comprehensive account of the issues facing the news media in America but also much needed responses to those issues. The consideration of the philosophical underpinnings of the field is a valuable source of direction for aspiring and working professionals.

Larry King, professor of mass communication, Stephen F. Austin State University
In an age where many media outlets appear most interested in reporting their interpretations of the news, the authors pinpoint problem areas and offer remedies to change the left and right ideological leanings that facilitate the public’s mistrust in journalism. This book is a must-read for anyone who gets their news from broadcast, print, and social media and questions if objectivity ever had a pulse in the first place.

George Bovenizer, assistant professor of broadcast journalism, University of South Alabama, former NBC Universal TV producer, 6-time Emmy nominee