{"product_id":"merchants-of-truth-the-business-of-news-and-the-fight-for-facts-9781501123214","title":"Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts","description":"\u003cb\u003eFormer executive editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and one of our most eminent journalists Jill Abramson provides a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"valuable and insightful\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade, as shown via \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etwo legacy (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) and two upstart (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e) companies as they plow through a revolution that pits old vs. new media.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A marvelous book\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eMerchants of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials. \"Abramson provides this deeply reported insider account of an industry fighting for survival. With a keen eye for detail and a willingness to interrogate her own profession, Abramson takes readers into the newsrooms and boardrooms of the legacy newspapers and the digital upstarts that seek to challenge their dominance\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e). We get to know the defenders of the legacy presses as well as the outsized characters who are creating the new speed-driven media competitors. The players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), Jonah Peretti (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e), and Shane Smith (\u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as their reporters and anxious readers\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerchants of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e raises crucial questions that concern the well-being of our society. We are facing a crisis in trust that threatens the free press. \"One of the best takes yet on journalism's changing fortunes\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review), Abramson's book points us to the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbramson, Jill:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jill Abramson is a senior lecturer at Harvard University. She also writes a biweekly column for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e about US politics. She spent seventeen years in the most senior editorial positions at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where she was the first woman to serve as Washington bureau chief, managing editor, and executive editor. Before joining the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e, she spent nine years at \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. The author of \u003ci\u003eMerchants of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, she lives in New York City.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339371745554,"sku":"9781501123214","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b07c1286-fac5-458b-82ae-b7784f2d958e.jpg?v=1728002906","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/merchants-of-truth-the-business-of-news-and-the-fight-for-facts-9781501123214","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}