Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital

A publishing legend's inside look at the business of newsand his compelling forecast of its future In Deadlines and Disruption, Stephen B. Shepardthe man who helped build BusinessWeekinto a publishing empiredescribes his rise from a Bronx working-class neighborhood to the top of the magazine industry. Providing a detailed look at an industry undergoing the greatest transformation in its history, Shepard explains how the digital age has changed the role of advertising, altered the way journalists approach their craft, and is presently directing the future of the news industry itself. Stephen B. Shepardwas Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeekfrom 1984-2005 and served as President of the American Society of Magazine Editors from 1992-1994. He founded and currently serves as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

Part I Foundation
1. Journalism and Me
2. City Upon a Hill
3. A Near-Death Experience
4. The Big Leagues
5. Swinging London
6. The Environmental Awakening
7. Columbia: Mr. Pulitzer’s Vision
8. Newsweek: The Turning Point
9. Saturday Review: The Dying Animal
Part II The Businessweek Years
10. Back to the Future
11. Reinventing a Magazine
12. “Decade of Greed”
13. Adventures in Investigative Reporting
14. The Bankers Trust Tapes
15. “One of the Great Journalistic Failings in Modern Times”
16. Going Global
17. The Dawning of the Digital Age
18. The Internet Boom and the New Economy
19. End Game
Part III Cuny: A New Journalism School For A New Era
20. Lee Bollinger’s Task Force
21. “I Don’t Want Just Another Journalism School”
22. Clash of Civilizations
23. Jeff@BuzzMachine
24. Countdown to opening Day
25. The Changing Role of Journalism Schools
26. Entrepreneurial Journalism: A Tale of Two Gentlemen
Part IV The Quest For New Business Models
27. A Thousand Flowers
28. Digital Dimes: Will Advertising Support Journalism?
29. Getting Users to Pay Their Way
30. Game Changers: iPads, Kindles, and Nooks
31. The Dream of Hyperlocal Journalism
32. Social Media: “If the News Is Important, It Will Find Me”
33. Will the Daily Bugle Survive?
Epilogue
Notes
Index