News After Trump

Matt Carlson is an Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era and On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism, and co-editor with Seth C. Lewis of Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation. Carlson has published over fifty journal articles and book chapters on contemporary struggles to define journalism and news practices, including in the Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, and New Media & Society. Sue Robinson is the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She is the author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities. A former reporter, Robinson teaches and studies journalism, digitaltechnologies, and power in local information flows, engaging in applied research and working with a variety of community and news outlets on best practices. Seth C. Lewis is Professor and Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He has published widely on many aspects of news and technology, and is co-editor, with Matt Carlson, of Boundaries of Journalism. A former journalist with The Miami Herald, Lewis is a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a recent visiting fellow with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He chairs the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association.

News After Trump investigates what a global, anti-journalism movement has meant for news. Donald Trump and other far-right politicians challenge journalists with antagonistic rhetoric, even labeling the press an enemy. Journalists have responded by trumpeting their democratic importance, while some look inward to advocate for change to their profession. This book asks how attacks on the press, journalistic failures, and a rapidly shifting media culture all contribute to questions about the very relevance of journalism. Taking an expansive view of the contemporary media environment, this book provides insights about the journalistic, media, and political world that has emerged, and offers journalists a way forward to rebuild trust and authority.

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