Newspaper Crisis

"Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers may be the most profound analysis of the subject since the last time Marshall McLuhan wrote about it. Mir describes a universe in which the news now chases the reader rather than the other way around. Everything is told in a wonderful epigrammatic style – you will be digging up quotes from it for years." – Martin Gurri, author of “The Revolt of the Public”. "The most important book in media theory that has been written in 40 years." – Paul Levinson, author of “Digital McLuhan”. "Andrey Mir’s Postjournalism offers a powerful, ...

This program is ready by Audie Award–winning narrator Holter Graham. A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media—from a man who used to pull the strings...

He wanted to protect the truth. They came to silence it. And now the next edition of his newspaper may be his last. Small-town managing editor Becket Thompson is barely holding his newsroom together. Layoffs. Budget cuts. A publisher looking for an excuse to fire him. And a woman he loves but can’t bring himself to pursue before she walks away forever. Then three armed men storm the building. Claiming they want “the truth” printed about their president, the gunmen issue an ultimatum: run their manifesto—or watch staff members die. But as the night unfolds inside the locked-down ...

Can India modernize its manufacturing economy and supply electricity to its growing population without relying heavily on coal - and quite possibly destroying the global climate?