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Highlights
- Journalism is in crisis, but the solution is right in front of us.It's no secret that news outlets are struggling to maintain their audience, and journalism jobs are being cut to accommodate tighter and tighter budgets--all while the public regularly falls prey to "fake news.
- Author(s): Cristi Hegranes
- 224 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Industries
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About the Book
International journalism needs a new paradigm, and this is the moment to forge one. In the wake of the pandemic and ongoing racial and environmental justice movements, news consumers are demanding better stories. International coverage prioritizes disasters and victim-centered narratives, ignores huge chunks of the world, and relies on outdated stereotypes. This kind of news reinforces the distrust people feel for the news.
The solution, as Cristi Hegranes details throughout this book, lies with local journalists who live in the communities at the center of the stories. They can tell the accurate, precise, compelling stories readers across the world are desperate to read.
By changing the mindset around who covers the news and how people in that coverage are depicted, Hegranes charts a path the entire industry can follow back to build trust, authority, and great er success.
Book Synopsis
Journalism is in crisis, but the solution is right in front of us.
It's no secret that news outlets are struggling to maintain their audience, and journalism jobs are being cut to accommodate tighter and tighter budgets--all while the public regularly falls prey to "fake news." Today, news consumers have lost trust in journalism. They sense, rightly, they aren't getting the whole story.
By reimagining a model for international journalism, Cristi Hegranes has proven we can reverse this trend--by changing who tells our stories. Local reporters with proximity to events and access to diverse sources tell fuller, more accurate stories--the sort of news consumers have been demanding for years.
Featuring original interviews with some of the biggest names in journalism, including Nicholas Kristof, Carroll Bogert, Bobby Ghosh, Lauren Williams and Global Press reporters across the planet, Byline makes a bold case that international coverage led by local journalists can restore trust in the entire industry.
To enact this solution, the industry will have to let go of many outdated assumptions about what news people want, who has a right to tell their story, and just what security means in the new era of journalism.
From the Back Cover
The World Needs a New Kind of Storyteller The Solution to a Struggling Journalism Industry Is Going Local
Journalism is in crisis, but the solution is right in front of us.
It's no secret that news outlets are struggling to maintain their audience, and journalism jobs are being cut to accommodate tighter and tighter budgets -- all while the public regularly falls prey to "fake news." Today, news consumers have lost trust in journalism. They sense, rightly, they aren't getting the whole story.
By reimagining a model for international journalism, Cristi Hegranes has proven we can reverse this trend -- by changing who tells our stories. Local reporters with proximity to events and access to diverse sources tell fuller, more accurate stories -- the sort of news consumers have been demanding for years. Featuring original interviews with some of the biggest names in journalism, including Nicholas Kristof, Carroll Bogert, Bobby Ghosh, Lauren Williams and Global Press reporters across the planet, Byline makes a bold case that international coverage led by local journalists can restore trust in the entire industry.
To enact this solution, the industry will have to let go of many outdated assumptions about what news people want, who has a right to tell their story, and just what security means in the new era of journalism.
Review Quotes
Byline is an essential book for anyone who cares about international journalism. Drawing on 17 years' experience building and running one of the most transformative models for journalism to be found anywhere in the world, Hegranes is uniquely positioned to explain what's wrong with the current system and, most importantly, how it can genuinely be improved.
David Bornstein, Co-founder, Solutions Journalism Network
Byline is many things, prescient, erudite, and timely but it is especially an affirmation of the value of journalism when it is done well.
Khadija Patel, Journalist in residence, International Fund for Public Interest Media
Cristi Hegranes's Byline upends the idea of foreign reporting as historically practiced, and thoughtfully offers better, accurate ways forward. Her oft-amusing examples of "parachute journalism" are eye-opening, expose dangers and limitations of mainstream media, and inspire all of us to do better. Where this book most shines is in proffering solutions, such as how communities can tell their own stories or how audience feedback can be revolutionary. There's nothing parochial about Hegranes's vision for local news; indeed, it's an essential guide to committing and consuming journalism in the new world order.
S. Mitra Kalita, CEO, URL Media