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The Times-picayune in a changing media world: the transformation of an American newspaper

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In 2012–2013, one of the largest U.S. newspaper chains, Advance Publications, determined its main product was no longer newspapers but news, and switched from daily print publication ofThe Times-Picayuneof New Orleans to three days a week, while upgrading its presence online (“Digital First”). More than two hundred employees, including half the newsroom, were laid off in one of the poorest U.S. cities with among the lowest literacy rates and percentages of households with Internet access. The decision raised a furor in New Orleans. Beginning with an historical overview ofThe Times-Picayune, from its 1837 founding through the present, The Times-Picayunein a Changing Media World: The Transformation of an American Newspaperdescribes the crucial role the dailies played in the 1960 school desegregation crisis, as well as the impact of the switch on print coverage of hard news in the context of media developments, and provides a detailed analysis of specific print editions ofThe Times-Picayuneand its digital formats conducted before and after the switch. This study of the evolution ofThe Times-Picayuneis instructive for all concerned with what the transformation might portend for the news profession and for the traditional role of the press in the digital age.

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Lexington Books
0739182455 / 9780739182451
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
17/07/2014
English
145 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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