SuperMedia : Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World

SuperMedia is 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. Examines the profound changes journalism is undergoing for social, economic and technological reasons Explores the potential for a entirely new type of journalism which these changes create, discussing the impact of social networking sites and blogs on traditional journalism, and making the case that journalism could be the catalyst for change needed to solve many of the world's problems in a controversial manner Written by a first class broadcast journalist, it provides a practical roadmap for identifying the issues and solutions that will ensure an open and reliable news media for generations to come.

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.