FAREWELL TO JOURNALISM?

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See Smith (2004 Smith, Ronald D. 2004. Strategic Planning for Public Relations, Mahwah, NJ: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], p. 191), Solomon (1992 Solomon, Norman. 1992. Unreliable Sources: a guide to detecting bias in news media, New York: Carol Publishing Group. [Google Scholar], p. 66) and Trevor Morris and Simon Goldsworthy (2008 Morris, Trevor and Goldsworthy, Simon. 2008. PR—a persuasive industry? Spin, public relations and the shaping of the modern media, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). See also http://www.nku.edu/~turney/prclass/readings/media_rel.html. 2. All quotations and statistics mentioned are from Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (2010 Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence In Journalism 2010 “The Study of the News Ecosystem of One American City” , 11 January, http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/how_news_happens . [Google Scholar]). 3. For a treatment of the scorched-earth approach of a newspaper publisher who is regarded as a visionary in the move from print to digital, see Carr (2011 Carr , David 2011 “Newspapers’ Digital Apostle” , The New York Times , 14 November . [Google Scholar], pp. B1, B6). For a treatment of the handful of the most successful new digital newsrooms at the local level, which depend overwhelmingly on donations and foundation grants, see The Knight Foundation (2011 The Knight Foundation 2011 Getting Local: how nonprofit news ventures seek sustainability , October , Miami , FL : The Knight Foundation . [Google Scholar]). 4. These remarks were prepared for testimony offered on April 20, 2010 at the FCC workshop, “Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership Impact on Competition and Diversity in the Media Marketplace” (Dunlap, 2010 Dunlap , Karen 2010 “FCC Testimony: media cross-ownership bears watching, but is not most critical issue” , http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/102162/fcc-testimony-media-cross-ownership-bears-watching-but-is-not-most-critical-issue/ . [Google Scholar]). 5. See Rodney Benson and Matthew Powers (2011, pp. 49–53, 34). The French government provides roughly 13 percent of the revenues of the French newspaper industry. The total revenues of US newspaper industry in 2008 were approximately $48 billion. See the data of the Newspaper Association of America (http://www.naa.org/TrendsandNumbers.aspx). Our estimate does not include the emergency three-year $950 million subsidy the French government made to address the crisis facing French newspapers. On a per capita basis that would be like the US government making a three-year $5 billion additional subsidy.