Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Tamara Witschge is Professor at the University of Groningen and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
In this insightful and engaging exploration of journalism startups and the people behind them, Deuze and Witschge break from narrow disciplinary boundaries in much the same way their subjects have broken from occupational ones. A must-read for anyone interested in the many forms contemporary journalism is taking, and the 'rascals and rebels' leading the way. Jane Singer, City, University of London To go beyond journalism, these scholars contest tacit assumptions about journalism and journalism studies, arguing that journalism has never been stable but is always becoming. Enter, then, this research on journalism startups, exemplary of how journalism as becoming is both praxis and ideology. Nikki Usher, University of Illinois