Re-examining the UK newspaper industry / Marc Edge.
This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry's financial viability in an online world, arguing that widespread predictions of pending newspaper extinction are based mostly on misunderstandings of the industry's operations. Drawing from his training as a business journalist, M...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge focus on journalism studies.
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| Summary: | This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry's financial viability in an online world, arguing that widespread predictions of pending newspaper extinction are based mostly on misunderstandings of the industry's operations. Drawing from his training as a business journalist, Marc Edge undertakes a thorough analysis of annual financial statements provided by newspaper companies themselves to explain the industry's arcane economics. This book contextualizes available data within the historical context in which various news publishers operate and outlines the economic history of UK newspapers. It also investigates how UK newspapers survived the 2008-09 recession, considering both national and provincial markets separately. A rigorous look at an often-neglected aspect of the newspaper industry, this volume will be an essential read for scholars of media studies, journalism studies, and communication studies, especially those interested in studying journalism and news production as occupational identities. |
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| Item Description: | "Routledge Focus"--PDF image of cover. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429890062 0429890060 9780429469206 0429469209 9780429890055 0429890052 9780429890048 0429890044 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group platform, viewed January 30, 2023) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Marc Edge was a newspaper journalist for twenty years in his native Canada, holding senior positions as an editor and reporter at the Calgary Herald and Vancouver Province. He studied for his doctorate in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of five previous books including Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers (2014) |