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Charlie Beckett is the founding Director of POLIS, the forum for research and debate into journalism and society at the London School of Economics. For 20 years he has worked for some of the best news and current affairs programmes at the BBC and Channel 4 News, ITN as an award-winning producer and programme editor. He was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University. He currently writes and broadcasts internationally about global journalism as well as teaching and researching at the LSE and the University of the Arts of London. As an experienced journalist who has covered events around the world and now as a think-tank director, Charlie Beckett has a unique vantage point on global news. POLIS engages with its international network of news media practitioners who take part in all aspects of its forum and study work centred on the LSE. And because POLIS works with governments, organisations and the public in different parts of the world, Charlie Beckett has a rare understanding of the impact of journalism beyond the newsroom.

Journalism matters. We live in a much more interconnected world where information is ever-more critical to our lives. Authorities the world over agree that it is a profession under siege. Yet, it is journalism that conveys that information and allows us to debate its significance. At this crucial time, journalism is undergoing profound changes for social, economic and technological reasons. Some of these changes, however, offer an opportunity for journalism not only to survive, but to do much more than it has in the past. Despite the barrage of social, political, cultural and commercial threats, the potential is there for a whole new type of journalism.
 
There are fewer hotter topics in media than the fate of journalism and the new media in our rapidly changing world. Smart and controversial, Beckett's timely book makes the case that journalism could be the catalyst for change needed to solve many of the world's problems. Drawing on his credentials as a first class broadcast journalist, Beckett provides a practical roadmap for identifying the issues and solutions that will ensure an open and reliable news media for generations to come.
 
A lively, engaging and refreshingly-opinionated text offering informed discussion on the importance and future of liberal journalism as a healthy part of a flourishing society.

Journalism matters. We live in a much more interconnected world where information is ever-more critical to our lives. Authorities the world over agree that it is a profession under siege. Yet, it is journalism that conveys that information and allows us to debate its significance.

Introduction.
 

1. Terror, Values and Community.
 
2. The new media landscape.
 
3. Networked journalism..
 
4. Politics and networked journalism.
 
5. Editorial diversity..
 
Media Literacy..
 
Conclusion.