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New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age By Dr Natalie Fenton

With massive changes in the media environment and its technologies, interrogating the nature of news journalism is one of the most urgent tasks we face in defining the public interest today. The implications are serious, not just for the future of the news, but also for the practice of democracy. In a thorough empirical investigation of journalistic practices in different news contexts, this book explores how technological, economic, and social changes have reconfigured news journalism, and the consequences of these transformations for a vibrant democracy in our digital age. The result is a piercing examination of why understanding news journalism matters now more than ever. It is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism and new media.

Review 'This important book brilliantly explores the contradiction between the transforming potential of new technologies and the stifling constraints of the free market and corporate power' - Greg Philo, Glasgow University Media Group

'In the great and significant debate about the future of news and information, Natalie Fenton has identified important new players and new ways in which society will be educated in the world in which they function. Few people have come so freshly and perceptively to describe the ethical and other challenges that occur when old reportorial modes are so substantially altered' - Monroe Price, Director, left for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

'This is journalism scholarship at its very best. New Media, Old News offers a radical and provocative assessment of the complexities of news, news media and journalism in the age of digital media and global news. Authoritative, yet accessible, this collection will undoubtedly shape scholarly and public debate about journalism and new media. But it also articulates a passionate commitment to the view that - more than ever - "news matters". This book is nothing less than essential reading for everyone interested in the past, present and future of news and journalism' - Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies, Cardiff University

Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Part I Introduction: New Media and Democracy 1

Drowning or Waving? New Media, Journalism and Democracy 3

Natalie Fenton

Part II New Media and News In Context 17

1 Technology Foretold 19

James Curran

2 The Political Economy of the ‘New’ News Environment 35

Des Freedman

3 An Ethical Deficit? Accountability, Norms, and the Material

Conditions of Contemporary Journalism 51

Angela Phillips, Nick Couldry, Des Freedman

Part III New Media and News in Practice 69

4 Culture Shock: New Media and Organizational Change

in the BBC 71

Peter Lee-Wright

5 Old Sources: New Bottles 87

Angela Phillips

6 Liberal Dreams and the Internet 102

James Curran and Tamara Witschge

Part IV New Media, News Sources, New Journalism? 119

7 Politics, Journalism and New Media: Virtual Iron Cages

in the New Culture of Capitalism 121

Aeron Davis

vi NEW MEDIA, OLD NEWS

8 New Online News Sources and Writer-Gatherers 138

Nick Couldry

9 NGOs, New Media and the Mainstream News: News from

Everywhere 153

Natalie Fenton

Part V New Media, News Content and International Context 169

10 A New News Order? Online News Content Examined 171

Joanna Redden and Tamara Witschge

11 Futures of the News: International Considerations and

Further Reflections 187

Rodney Benson

References 201

Index 219

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