By the People A Blogger's Vision for Restoring Trust in the News And Reviving a Truly Free Press

Are the bloggers beating big media? Jay Rosen contends that the answer is yesand thats a good thing. Indeed, he argues that the press will have to learn from the bloggers in order to survive. A prominent blogger himself, Rosen explains how the coverage of the Iraq war and the 2004 campaign and the controversies over Dan Rathers forged-memo story and Newsweeks Koran-desecration article have forced the fourth estate to acknowledge its decaying authority, its decreasing relevance, and its disappearing audience. In its place, blogging and the Internet are giving ordinary citizens far more access to firsthand reporting and analysis, both by professional journalists in the far reaches of the world and by people just like themselves. Rosen shows how journalism is being reinvented by such pioneers as Chris Albritton, who snuck into Iraq as one of a handful of independent, non-embedded reporters; the Greensboro, North Carolina, newspaper that has invited its readers to rewrite their news coverage, online and in real time; and a blogger in Rochester, Minnesota, who uncovered genocide in Ethiopia. Ultimately Rosen argues that the press must become even more interactive, following the open-source model of the software world, if it is to reinvigorate the publics trust in the people who report the news. By the People is an essential book for anyone who cares about the future of journalism.Rosen, Jay is the author of 'By the People A Blogger's Vision for Restoring Trust in the News And Reviving a Truly Free Press', published 2007 under ISBN 9780805079784 and ISBN 0805079785.