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My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital
McGraw-Hill
September 2012
On Sale: August 21, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0071802649
EAN: 9780071802642
Kindle: B0091ETBQU
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“My personal passage is, in many ways, a microcosm of the
larger struggle within the journalism profession to come to
terms with the digital reckoning. Will the new technologies
enhance journalism . . . or water it down for audiences with
diminished attention spans? What new business models will
emerge to sustain quality journalism?” Stephen B.
Shepard has seen it all. Editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek
for more than 20 years, Shepard helped transform the
magazine into one of the most respected voices of its time.
But after his departure, he saw it collapse—another victim
of the digital age. In Deadlines and
Disruption, Shepard recounts his five decades in
journalism—a time of radical transformations in the way news
is developed, delivered, and consumed. Raised in the Bronx,
Shepard graduated from City College and Columbia, joined
BusinessWeek as a reporter, and rose to the top
editorial post. He has closed the circle by returning to the
university that spawned him, founding the Graduate School of
Journalism at the City University of New York. In the
digital age, anyone can be a journalist. Opinion pieces are
replacing original reporting as the coin of the realm. And
an entire generation is relying on Facebook friends and
Twitter feeds to tell them what to read. Is this the
beginning of an irreversible slide into third-rate
journalism? Or the start of a better world of interactive,
multimedia journalism? Will the news industry live up to its
responsibility to forge a well-informed public?
Shepard tackles all the tough questions facing
journalists, the news industry, and, indeed, anyone who
understands the importance of a well-informed public in a
healthy democracy. The story of Shepard’s career
is the story of the news industry—and in Deadlines
and Disruption, he provides peerless insight into
one of the most critical issues of our time.
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