kNewspapers: A Novel About Love and Citizen Journalism
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Description
Sex, Drugs and Journalism Studies Paul Malinski transforms into kpaul as he journeys through the wilderness and the universe when banished from corporate media. Along the way, he learns a lot about journalism, greed, love, black holes, Occupy Wall Street, robots and automation, poetry, selflessness, mental illness and much more. Perhaps most important, he learns about himself and that one person alone can't do everything.
In the background and at the very edges, this novel describes the continued decline of big media and the rise of “citizen journalism” as seen through the eyes of a man who believes that Journalism is much too important to leave to large corporations. This book is for journalists, ex-journalists, and anyone who wishes there was a better system of news dissemination in this nation and around the world.
Oh, and there's a lot of poetry and an "It's Complicated" love story. (Read the comments for some hints...)
This is an autobiographical novel, a work of fiction.
Reader Reviews
I received a copy of this book for review from Goodreads First Reads program.This book has a lot of potential and some good moments, but it needed revision.In the beginning of the novel, I sympathized with the main character and wanted him to succeed. As a journalist who has experienced the cutbacks of the digital era myself, I identified with a lot of his goals. As someone who runs a blog, I also identified with his web start-up stories. However, there were a lot of things going on that made me
This book is fun and well-constructed and thought out. Especially the poetry is beautiful and enjoyable, also the parts in which the author has the humility to write about what is really going on, the early "Brandee" parts. This might well be a textbook of sorts for future generations of journalists. The plot: Journalism is dying and/or changing due to the onslaught of new forms of media. The main character of this novel, an alter ego to the real kPaul, I presume, is taking on the dinosaur corpo
I'll be brutally honest here.I'm not sure whether I liked this book. There were times when I felt like I did but there were also times when I really didn't. The story tells of kPaul and his endeavours to change journalism.The book is split into several endings so it does feel a bit disjointed
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