Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy
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Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy by Alex Jones
was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. Alex Jones is the Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
as a "sphere of pitted iron, grey and imperfect like a large cannonball". This iron core is the aggregate of all professional journalism done by news organizations. It is not the editorials, opinions or the entertainment section. Jones states that while no one has ever measured the amount of iron core news in print media, he believes only about 15% of print media is the iron core news, this number being slightly higher during times of national crisis.
Jones dedicates a chapter of the book to Newspapers on the Brink. This is central to his theme that print media is being lost in the wake of technology and with it professional journalism.
Alex Jones (journalist)
Alex S. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has been director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2000. Jones is also a lecturer at the school, occupying the Laurence M...
was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. Alex Jones is the Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
Premise
Jones cites "The Iron Core" of journalismJournalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
as a "sphere of pitted iron, grey and imperfect like a large cannonball". This iron core is the aggregate of all professional journalism done by news organizations. It is not the editorials, opinions or the entertainment section. Jones states that while no one has ever measured the amount of iron core news in print media, he believes only about 15% of print media is the iron core news, this number being slightly higher during times of national crisis.
Jones dedicates a chapter of the book to Newspapers on the Brink. This is central to his theme that print media is being lost in the wake of technology and with it professional journalism.
External links
- HKS Faculty/Staff - Alex Jones http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/alex-jones
- Losing the News website http://www.losingthenews.com/