TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnhurst,Kevin G.
TI  - Mister pulitzer and the spider: modern news from realism to the digital 
T2  - The History of Communication
SN  - 9780252040184
AV  - PN4801 .B32 2016
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Urbana, Illinois
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Journalism
KW  - History
KW  - Broadcast journalism
KW  - Press
KW  - Online journalism
KW  - Digital media
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-280) and index
N2  - A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped 'legacy media', killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital 'spider'? To solve the mystery, Kevin Barnhurst spent 30 years studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The usual suspects - technology, business competition, and the pursuit of scoops - are only partly to blame for the fate of news
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