ABSTRACT. The “future of news” is mostly already here – citizen preference for digital products and services for news is clear, and advertisers have followed. It now falls to news organizations to adapt to those often-wrenching changes. This paper provides an overview of the current state of journalism as a practice and as an industry; a section of analysis and recommendations for practicing journalists; another for news organizations; and another surveying the overall ecosystem. No simple answers are forthcoming. The fortunes of various news organizations, old and young, are uncertain; adapting to the present will turn that previously stable industry into a much more diverse collection of organizations, with differing methods, goals, and means of support. pp. 32–123

Keywords: news; journalism; journalists; newspapers; internet; digital media; omg

How to cite: Anderson, C.W., Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky (2015), “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present,” Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 7(2): 32–123.

Received 12 August 2014 • Received in revised form 13 February 2015
Accepted 18 February 2015 • Available online 30 July 2015