TY - JOUR
T1 - What’s the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism:
T2 - By Tony Harcup, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, 158 pp., 58,84 € (eBook), 69,99 € (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-39946-7; ISBN (eBook) 978-3-030-39947-4
AU - Fisher, Caroline
PY - 2021/4/6
Y1 - 2021/4/6
N2 - Journalism continues to wrestle economic and epistemic pressures in response to the impact of digitization. Questions about: What is journalism? Who is a journalist? And how do we fund it? Are not new and continue to swirl in a high-choice, low-trust, information environment in which news and traditional forms of journalism are increasingly outnumbered by alternatives. It is in this context that Tony Harcup, now an Emeritus Fellow in Journalism at the University of Sheffield, asks the question: What is the point of news?
AB - Journalism continues to wrestle economic and epistemic pressures in response to the impact of digitization. Questions about: What is journalism? Who is a journalist? And how do we fund it? Are not new and continue to swirl in a high-choice, low-trust, information environment in which news and traditional forms of journalism are increasingly outnumbered by alternatives. It is in this context that Tony Harcup, now an Emeritus Fellow in Journalism at the University of Sheffield, asks the question: What is the point of news?
U2 - 10.1080/21670811.2021.1905534
DO - 10.1080/21670811.2021.1905534
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
SN - 2167-082X
SP - 1
EP - 3
JO - Digital Journalism
JF - Digital Journalism
ER -