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Tales from the Great Disruption: The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future

By Michael Shapiro

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780231527392
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3008436 bytes)
Series
Columbia Journalism Review Books
Pages
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Time added
2023-03-17 01:05:10
Literary Criticism; Nonfiction; LIT000000

Description

In the first of an in-depth narrative series that will illuminate key moments in journalism’s rough evolution in the age of the Internet, Michael Shapiro tells the little known inside story of the San Jose Mercury News, which brilliantly seized the moment yet didn’t know what to do with it, and then, sadly, released its grasp. Shapiro sheds light on the rise and fall of the Mercury's owner, Knight-Ridder, which rose to dizzying business and journalistic heights, only to crash, a victim of the great disruption. Was it inevitable, or were key mistakes made and opportunities missed?

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