Book Review: Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
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JOUspjouJournalism1464-88491741-3001SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England10.1177/146488491141640910.1177_1464884911416409Book ReviewsBook Review: Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix ItLewisSeth C.University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA11201112810671068McChesneyRobert W.PickardVictor (eds) Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix ItNew York: The New Press, 2011. pp. ISBN 9781595585486© SAGE Publications 20112011SAGE PublicationsThe recent crisis in journalism – the collapse of traditional advertising subsidy, the mass layoffs amid corporate failures, the struggle to wrest control of technological change, all amid the rise of do-it-yourself publishing that challenges journalists’ professional authority – has resulted in a deluge of ‘future of journalism’ discussions. From books to essays to blog posts to an endless lineup of academic/professional conferences, not to mention a 10th anniversary special issue of this journal (Journalism, 2009, 10[3]), many of the same questions have been debated and rehashed: is journalism dying or being reborn? Can bloggers (and citizens) be considered journalists? Who will pay for the news? and so on. And yet, amid this surfeit of discussion, some of the best thinking on this subject has been drowned out, or at least