Saving Journalism: The Rise, Demise and Survival of the News -Hardcover

"Clear-eyed and brilliant" – Tom Holland, historian

“Passionate, perceptive and prophetic… a clarion call to all who hunger for better public conversation” – John Wyatt, Emeritus Professor of Ethics, University College, London

Why is society's watchdog, the press, going feral?

• Failing to bark at misrepresentation and fraud, while snarling at truth?
• Why does journalism hold the privileged position it does?

As commercialisation collides with the greatest communication revolution since Gutenberg, revenues and media ethics are in meltdown.

The Impact of Digital and AI-Produced Media

• Digital and now AI-produced media have 'the most prodigious capability for spreading lies the world has ever seen' (Alan Rusbridger, Editor, The Guardian, U.K.).
• Is it mere coincidence that readers are turning away in the millions, globally?

Yes, news mongering has always existed! But responsible journalism, with its solid foundations, has been sadly neglected.

The Historical Roots of Journalism

• Why did journalism emerge first in Europe?
• How far back do the origins of public discourse go?
• What was it about moral fervour, all the way back to the Hebrew people, that revolutionised:
  • Greek and Roman classical narrative,
  • The understanding of values, character, personality, and even language itself?

A Heroic Past and a Hopeful Future

Saving Journalism recounts its often heroic past—and, just possibly, empowers you to help guarantee its future.