As cash-strapped metropolitan newspapers struggle to maintain their traditional influence and quality reporting, large national and international outlets have pivoted to serving readers who can and will choose to pay for news, skewing coverage toward a wealthy, white, and liberal audience. Amid rampant inequality and distrust, media outlets have become more out of touch with the democracy they purport to serve. How did journalism end up in such a predicament, and what are the prospects for achieving a more equitable future?
In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market. She details how Google, Facebook, and the digital-advertising ecosystem have wreaked havoc on the economic model for quality journalism, leaving local news to suffer. Usher also highlights how the handful of likely survivors—well-funded media outlets such as the New York Times—increasingly appeal to a global, “placeless” reader.
News for the Rich, White, and Blue concludes with a series of provocative recommendations to reimagine journalism to ensure its resiliency and its ability to speak to a diverse set of issues and readers.
"An insightful and important book." - International Journal of Communication
"Usher analyzes the interplay between journalism, politics, and place, arguing that the loss of local journalism and the rise of concentrated, nationalized news organizations have played a central role in fostering media distrust...mount[ing] a compelling argument about the way place shapes journalism today." - Boston Review
"I found Usher’s book to be a provocative way to challenge the conventional wisdom in journalism, political science, and related disciplines. Many in these fields might not agree with her conclusions, but the points are well worth considering as we all work together to figure out a sustainable, inclusive model for local news." - Cleveland Review of Books
"Nikki Usher has written a remarkable book about the death – and possible rebirth – of the local newspaper." - Open Democracy
"Insightful...a much needed addition to the continued unpacking of the 2016 US election and its aftermath." - Journalism
"An insightful and important book." - International Journal of Communication
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In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market. She details how Google, Facebook, and the digital-advertising ecosystem have wreaked havoc on the economic model for quality journalism, leaving local news to suffer. Usher also highlights how the handful of likely survivors—well-funded media outlets such as the New York Times—increasingly appeal to a global, “placeless” reader.
News for the Rich, White, and Blue concludes with a series of provocative recommendations to reimagine journalism to ensure its resiliency and its ability to speak to a diverse set of issues and readers.
"An insightful and important book." - International Journal of Communication
"Usher analyzes the interplay between journalism, politics, and place, arguing that the loss of local journalism and the rise of concentrated, nationalized news organizations have played a central role in fostering media distrust...mount[ing] a compelling argument about the way place shapes journalism today." - Boston Review
"I found Usher’s book to be a provocative way to challenge the conventional wisdom in journalism, political science, and related disciplines. Many in these fields might not agree with her conclusions, but the points are well worth considering as we all work together to figure out a sustainable, inclusive model for local news." - Cleveland Review of Books
"Nikki Usher has written a remarkable book about the death – and possible rebirth – of the local newspaper." - Open Democracy
"Insightful...a much needed addition to the continued unpacking of the 2016 US election and its aftermath." - Journalism
"An insightful and important book." - International Journal of Communication
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