George Brock is a professor and former head of the prestigious Graduate School of Journalism at City University London. During his career as a journalist he worked for the Observer and The Times, where he was Foreign Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor. He has served as president of the World Editors Forum and is on the board of the International Press Institute. He is a regular commentator on news and journalism in the UK and global media and is an active conference speaker and reviewer.

• Chapter - 00: Introduction: from ink to link;Chapter - 01: Communicating whatever we please;Chapter - 02: Furnishing the world with a new set of nerves;Chapter - 03: The gilded age;Chapter - 04: The engine of opportunity;Chapter - 05: Rethinking journalism again;Chapter - 06: The business model crumbles;Chapter - 07: Credibility crumbles;Chapter - 08: The Leveson judgement;Chapter - 09: Throwing spaghetti at the wall;Chapter - 10: Clues to the future

"When George Brock talks, in his excellent book, about the "disruption" of the net, the atomisation of news and opinion, he evokes echoes of a different era: an unruly world of vituperation, agitation, even revolution. But this time it may not be the melee of new voices that crowded the pages of centuries past. This time it's a higgledy-piggledy high-tech empowerment that politicians (and editors) can't control."

George Brock is a professor and former head of the prestigious Graduate School of Journalism at City University London. During his career as a journalist he worked for the Observer and The Times, where he was Foreign Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor. He has served as president of the World Editors Forum and is on the board of the International Press Institute. He is a regular commentator on news and journalism in the UK and global media and is an active conference speaker and reviewer.

• Chapter - 00: Introduction: from ink to link;Chapter - 01: Communicating whatever we please;Chapter - 02: Furnishing the world with a new set of nerves;Chapter - 03: The gilded age;Chapter - 04: The engine of opportunity;Chapter - 05: Rethinking journalism again;Chapter - 06: The business model crumbles;Chapter - 07: Credibility crumbles;Chapter - 08: The Leveson judgement;Chapter - 09: Throwing spaghetti at the wall;Chapter - 10: Clues to the future

"When George Brock talks, in his excellent book, about the "disruption" of the net, the atomisation of news and opinion, he evokes echoes of a different era: an unruly world of vituperation, agitation, even revolution. But this time it may not be the melee of new voices that crowded the pages of centuries past. This time it's a higgledy-piggledy high-tech empowerment that politicians (and editors) can't control."

George Brock is a professor and former head of the prestigious Graduate School of Journalism at City University London. During his career as a journalist he worked for the Observer and The Times, where he was Foreign Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor. He has served as president of the World Editors Forum and is on the board of the International Press Institute. He is a regular commentator on news and journalism in the UK and global media and is an active conference speaker and reviewer.

• Chapter - 00: Introduction: from ink to link;Chapter - 01: Communicating whatever we please;Chapter - 02: Furnishing the world with a new set of nerves;Chapter - 03: The gilded age;Chapter - 04: The engine of opportunity;Chapter - 05: Rethinking journalism again;Chapter - 06: The business model crumbles;Chapter - 07: Credibility crumbles;Chapter - 08: The Leveson judgement;Chapter - 09: Throwing spaghetti at the wall;Chapter - 10: Clues to the future

"When George Brock talks, in his excellent book, about the "disruption" of the net, the atomisation of news and opinion, he evokes echoes of a different era: an unruly world of vituperation, agitation, even revolution. But this time it may not be the melee of new voices that crowded the pages of centuries past. This time it's a higgledy-piggledy high-tech empowerment that politicians (and editors) can't control."