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- Title
Journalism Crisis: Proposing Public-Service Model of Press.
- Authors
Riaz, Saqib
- Abstract
Almost consensus has been developed that journalism is passing through the hardest time of its history worldwide. It is in a freefall collapse to varying degrees in different parts of the world. Its quality and quantity, both are in decline. However, there is a disagreement among media scholars and intellectuals about the nature of this decline and about the solutions to resolve the crisis. This author provides an overview of the journalism crisis worldwide and then contextualizes this crisis within a number of political, structural and technological processes all over the world that can guide us to know about the nature of the crisis and also some remedies to strengthen journalism in the democratic societies of the world, especially Pakistan. The study is based on the in-depth analysis of the debates of media critics and scholars. The author concludes some normative implications about the future of journalism. He also provides some policy proposals aiming provision of necessary resources for a stable, free and autonomous print media. The article presents a model of public-service journalism that may take over the position of present-day commercial media system.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; JOURNALISM; MASS media; DIGITAL media; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNMENT aid to the press
- Publication
Global Media Journal: Pakistan Edition, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 1, p108
- ISSN
2518-2595
- Publication type
Article