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Use this collection of journalism case studies as ready-made curriculum to introduce students of journalism and mass communications to some of the most urgent issues facing the media industry. Each case reflects original research about real-life situations. The Case Method helps students learn skills of leadership, management, critical thinking and ethics. The volume includes 10 individual cases, each with an epilogue and a Teaching Note--a guide to classroom use. TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART A: BUSINESS MODELS 1. Charting a Course for Change: Transforming the Albany Times Union in a Wired World 2. Risky Business: John Harris, Jim VandeHei, and Politico Part A 3. Risky Business: John Harris, Jim VandeHei, and Politico Part B: A Winning Model? 4. Not for Profit?: The Voice of San Diego Experiment 5. Into the Breach: Should Student Journalists Save Local Political Reporting? PART B: NEWSROOM MODELS 6. The Bakersfield Californian and Blogging the Courtroom 7. Crowdsourcing Promise or Hazard? Part A 8. Crowdsourcing Promise or Hazard? Part B: Help us investigate 9. The Facebook Conundrum: The New Haven Independent and the Annie Le Murder 10. Digital Deadline: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Kirkwood Shooting

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