Slow Journalism has emerged in recent years to enact a critique of the limitations and dangers of the speed of much mainstream contemporary journalistic practice. There have been types of journalism produced and consumed slowly for centuries, of course. What is new is the context of hyper-acceleration and over-production of journalism, where quality has suffered, ethics are compromised and user attention has eroded. Many have been asking if there is another way to practice journalism. The emergence of Slow Journalism suggests that there is.
Many international scholars and practitioners have been thinking critically about the problems wrought by speed, and are utilising the concept of "slow" to describe a new way of thinking about and producing journalism. This edited collection offers theoretical perspectives and case studies on the practice of slow journalism around the globe. Slow Journalism is a new practice for new times. This book was originally published as two special issues of Journalism Practice and Digital Journalism.
Introduction Slow Journalism: An introduction to a new research
paradigm
1. On not going too fast with Slow Journalism
2. Reclaiming slowness
in journalism: Critique, complexity and difference
3. Lessening the
construction of otherness: A slow ethics of journalism
4. The Temporal
Tipping Point: Regimentation, representation and reorientation in
ethnographic journalism
5. When Slow News is Good News: Book-length
journalisms role in extending and enlarging daily news
6. Slow Journalism in
Spain: New magazine startups and the paradigmatic case of Jot Down
7. Is
there a future for Slow Journalism? The perspective of younger users
8.
Editing, fast and slow
9. Networked news time: How slow or fast do
publics need news to be?
10. Multimedia, Slow Journalism as process, and the
possibility of proper time
11. The Sochi Project: Slow journalism within the
transmedia space
12. Slowing down media coverage on the US-Mexico border:
News as sociological critique in Borderland
13. Resiliency in Recovery: Slow
journalism as public accountability in post-Katrina New Orleans
14. Time to
Engage: De Correspondents redefinition of journalistic quality
15. "Make
Every Frame Count": The practice of slow photojournalism and the work of
David Burnett
16. The Business of Slow Journalism: Deep storytellings
alternative economies
17. Slow Journalism and the Out of Eden Walk
Megan Le Masurier is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Australia.
