Journalism and New Media: How Digital Transformation is Shaping the News Industry

I have just finished reading a book by Sergio Maistrello, a colleague I have known for years and who has long been involved in the relationship between journalism and digital media. It’s an excellent 228-page book that features an extensive bibliography, a sign of thorough research. Journalism and New Media: Information in the Age of Citizen Journalism”, this is the title of the book published by Apogeo, which in ten chapters unpacks the question of journalism that survives or dies in the wake of the publishing crisis, and above all, the Internet revolution. Along the same lines as the historical debate over TV supposedly having to kill cinema (and we all know that, in the end, it didn’t turn out that way), Maistrello’s book shows how only a process of modernization in the publishing industry can not only survive the “digital cyclone” but even emerge victorious. And with it, journalism or the various forms of journalism, which, only with a modern vision, can be revalued and relaunched.

It’s quite a challenge that Sergio Maistrello puts out in his book—one that should be taken up with a touch of optimism to see the future of journalism no longer shrouded in a thick cloud of black smoke where nothing can be distinguished except darkness.