News agencies : anachronism or lifeblood of the media system?

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments = x
• Introduction : News agencies - a world unto themselves = 1
• Introduction = 1
• Breaking news from faraway places = 2
• A rich history of scoops = 4
• Chapter overview = 9
• Notes = 12
• References = 13
• 1 From carrier pigeons to social media = 15
• Introduction = 15
• Birth of the agencies = 16
• Establishing news values and norms = 18
• Competition and the Agency Alliance Treaty = 20
• Breaking free of government shackles = 21
• Translating independence into a style and ethos = 25
• UNESCO and the charge of imperialism = 26
• Corporate change and the building blocks of today’s agency landscape = 27
• The competition for dominance = 29
• Conclusion : How the wheels came off = 34
• Notes = 35
• References = 36
• 2 Weathering the storm : Can more than 150 years of tradition save the news agencies?39
• Introduction = 39
• A continual slide in earnings but is there a route to recovery? = 41
• Adapting to social media and the rush to digital = 45
• Editorial is the target for cost cutting = 49
• Who wants plain vanilla news? = 54
• Conclusion = 56
• Notes = 57
• References = 58
• 3 Back to the future : Social media, fact-checking and plain vanilla journalism = 59
• Introduction = 59
• Fact-checking takes on new dimensions = 60
• Fact-checking in practice = 64
• Still gatekeeping or “gatewatching”? = 67
• The danger within = 72
• Covering Trump = 76
• Conclusion = 78
• Notes = 80
• References = 81
• 4 Collaboration, community and state actors = 84
• Introduction = 84
• Taking a different approach = 86
• Breaking the taboo about collaboration = 88
• A community-based approach = 93
• Do the soft power players change anything? = 97
• Conclusion = 100
• Notes = 102
• References = 104
• Conclusion : News agencies - rooted in the past and looking to the future = 106
• Introduction = 106
• The last outpost = 108
• Digging in for the long haul = 110
• The pitfalls of social media = 112
• Going back to their roots = 113
• Notes = 116
• References = 116
• Index = 118