I’m proud to have a chapter included in the impressive Routledge Companion to News and Journalism.
Companion to News and Journalism
My piece is titled Real News/Fake News: Beyond the News/Entertainment Divide. The basic premise is that the kind of alternative, hybrid programming often mislabeled as “fake news” is really only fake to the extent that it violates the conventions that we assume define the “real” news.
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Geoffrey Baym is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the 
Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News (Paradigm Publishers, 2009) traces a historical trajectory from the height of the network age and Walter Cronkite’s Evening News, to our current post-network era, when the late-night comedians now stand among the nation’s most important newscasters.