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The democratic value of news : why public service media matter / Stephen Cushion.

By:

Cushion, Stephen [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xii, 243 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0230271537
9780230271531
0230271529
9780230271524

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

070.43 23

LOC classification:

HE8689.7.P82 C88 2012

Contents:

Introduction -- The philosophy and economics of different broadcast models: how do funding models and regulatory frameworks shape the democratic value of news? -- Journalism cultures and public service ethics: evaluating the democratic value of news -- Reflecting a "window on the world"? Reporting local, national and international news -- Making sense of elections: the journalistic conventions and practices of campaign reporting -- Between patriotism and independence: the politics of reporting wars and conflicts -- Adapting to the 24/7 environment of journalism: the evolution and development of rolling news channels -- Protecting the democratic value of news: why public service media matter.

Summary: In information-rich democracies there remains widespread concern about the "quality" of news and how it can be evaluated to deliver informed citizenship. This book compares the democratic value of news produced by public and market-driven media, asking whether citizens should continue to subsidize public service media in an already crowded commercial landscape of news.Summary: Carrying out a comprehensive meta-analysis of internationally informed empirical news studies and reviewing the impact news has on people's knowledge, civic participation and levels of trust towards competing media systems, this study finds that the democratic value of news is more likely to be enhanced when it is produced by public rather than market-driven media. For all the commercial choice and competition in contemporary news culture, it is argued that public service media not only remain distinctive from market-driven media they contribute to raising the editorial standards of journalism more widely.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	070.43 CUS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A480455B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In information-rich democracies there remains widespread concern about the "quality" of news and how it can be evaluated to deliver informed citizenship. This book compares the democratic value of news produced by public and market-driven media, asking whether citizens should continue to subsidize public service media in an already crowded commercial landscape of news.

Carrying out a comprehensive meta-analysis of internationally informed empirical news studies and reviewing the impact news has on people's knowledge, civic participation and levels of trust towards competing media systems, this study finds that the democratic value of news is more likely to be enhanced when it is produced by public rather than market-driven media. For all the commercial choice and competition in contemporary news culture, it is argued that public service media not only remain distinctive from market-driven media they contribute to raising the editorial standards of journalism more widely.

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