e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Choice Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Kennedy, Dan, 1956-
Subjects
Bezos, Jeffrey.
Henry, John, 1949-
Kushner, Aaron, (Private investor)
Boston globe.
Orange County register.
Washington post.
Newspaper publishing -- United States.
Newspaper publishing -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Journalism -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Electronic newspapers -- United States -- History.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Kennedy, Dan, 1956-
by title:
The return of the mo...
by call number:
071.30905 K35r
Search the Web
Kennedy, Dan, 1956-
Bezos, Jeffrey.
Henry, John, 1949-
Kushner, Aaron, (Private investor)
Boston globe.
Orange County register.
Washington post.
Newspaper publishing -- United States.
Newspaper publishing -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Journalism -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Electronic newspapers -- United States -- History.
MARC Display
The return of the moguls : how Jeff Bezos and John Henry are remaking newspapers for the twenty-first century / Dan Kennedy.
by
Kennedy, Dan, 1956-
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, 2018.
Call #:
071.30905 K35r
Subjects
Bezos, Jeffrey.
Henry, John, 1949-
Kushner, Aaron, (Private investor)
Boston globe.
Orange County register.
Washington post.
Newspaper
publishing
--
United
States
.
Newspaper
publishing
--
Technological innovations
--
United
States
.
Publishers and
publishing
--
United
States
.
Journalism
--
Technological innovations
--
United
States
.
Electronic newspapers
--
United
States
--
History.
ISBN:
9781611685947 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How Jeff Bezos and John Henry are remaking newspapers for the twenty-first century
Description:
281 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The rise and fall of newspapers in a time of turmoil
--
The swashbuckler: Jeff Bezos puts his stamp on a legendary
newspaper
--
The crux of the matter: John Henry's culture of experimentation
--
Unrequited love: spurned in Boston and Maine, Aaron Kushner looks west
--
This is your brain on the Internet: can news break free of the distraction machine?
--
Getting big fast: how the Washington Post is becoming the Amazon of news
--
The end of free: The Boston Globe tells readers to pay up
--
Orange crush: from California dreaming to an epic nightmare
--
Money isn't everything: why wealthy ownership doesn't guarantee success
--
All in: Jeff Bezos takes his place as an "enemy of the people"
--
Epilogue: The fall and rise of journalism in the age of Trump.
Summary:
"The Return of the Moguls chronicles an important story in the making, one that will affect more than just the
newspaper
business―it has the power to change democracy as we know it. Over the course of a generation, the story of the daily
newspaper
has been an unchecked slide from record profitability and readership to plummeting profits, increasing irrelevance, and inevitable obsolescence. The forces killing major dailies, alternative weeklies, and small-town shoppers are well understood―or seem obvious in hindsight, at least―and the catalog of publications that have gone under reads like a who’s who of American journalism. During the past half-century, old-style press barons gave way to a cabal of corporate interests unable or unwilling to invest in the future even as technological change was destroying their core business. The Taylor family sold the Boston Globe to the New York Times Company in 1993 for a cool $1.1 billion. Twenty years later, the Times Company resold it for just $70 million. The unexpected twist to the story, however, is not what they sold it for but who they sold it to: John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox. A billionaire who made his money in the world of high finance, Henry inspired optimism in Boston because of his track record as a public-spirited business executive―and because his deep pockets seemed to ensure that the shrunken
newspaper
would not be subjected to further downsizing. In just a few days, the sale of the Globe was overtaken by much bigger news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the world’s richest people, had reached a deal to buy the Washington Post for $250 million. Henry’s ascension at the Globe sparked hope. Bezos’s purchase seemed to inspire nothing short of ecstasy, as numerous observers expressed the belief that his lofty status as one of our leading digital visionaries could help him solve the daunting financial problems facing the
newspaper
business. Though Bezos and Henry are the two most prominent individuals to enter the
newspaper
business, a third preceded them. Aaron Kushner, a greeting-card executive, acquired California’s Orange County Register in July 2012 and then pursued an audacious agenda, expanding coverage and hiring journalists in an era when nearly all other
newspaper
owners were trying to avoid cutting both. The
newspaper
business is at a perilous crossroads. This essential book explains why, and how today’s new crop of media moguls might help it to survive."--From publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
071.30905 K35r
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.