News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

Matt Carlson (Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota),Sue Robinson (Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison),Seth C. Lewis (Professor and Shirley Pape Chair in Emerging Media, Professor and Shirley Pape Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon)

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
19 May 2022
Pages
288
ISBN
9780197550342

News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

Matt Carlson (Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota),Sue Robinson (Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison),Seth C. Lewis (Professor and Shirley Pape Chair in Emerging Media, Professor and Shirley Pape Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon)

Donald Trump might have been the loudest and most powerful voice maligning the integrity of news media in a generation, but his unrelenting attacks draw from a stew of resentment, wariness, cynicism, and even hatred toward the press that has been simmering for years. At one time, journalism’s centrality in reporting and interpreting important events was relatively unquestioned when a limited number of channels and voices produced a consensus-based news environment. The collapse of this environment has sparked a moment of reckoning within and outside journalism, particularly as professional news outlets struggle to remain solvent. Alternative voices compete for attention with and criticize the work and motivations of journalists, even as a growing number of journalists question their core norms and practices. News After Trump considers these struggles over journalism to be about the very relevance of journalism as an institutional form of knowledge production. At the heart of this questioning is a struggle to define what truthful accounts look like and who ought to create them or determine them in a rapidly changing media culture. Through an extensive accounting of Trump’s relationship with the press, and drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists and textual analysis of news events, editorials, social media, and trade-press discussions, the book rethinks the relevance of journalism by recognizing the limits of objectivity and the way in which journalism positions certain actors as authority figures while rendering the less socially powerful invisible or flawed. This ethos of detachment has staved off vital questions about how journalism connects to its audiences, how it creates enduring value in people’s lives (or not), and how diversity needs to be understood jointly at the level of production, reporting, and audience in order to rebuild trust.

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