The future of television news is not. Are you ready for it? Television news - which has played a crucial role in the world's most steps on the middle of a digital-fueled revolution. In its early years, tv news was monopolized by large corporations and state broadcasts who controlled what went on air and when. Then technological advance in the 1980s enabled billionaires like ted turner and beam 24-hour news channels across the world via cable and satellite. Today, we are living through a third, turbulent iteration: straming over the internet, which is radically changing how television is produced, watched and delivered. , It has so dramatically lowered the coast of entry ince the exclusive domain of guverments, multinationals and tycoons that almost anyone can now set up their own global news. Who what can can we trust? In this stimulating and authoritative study, zafar siddiqi - who has launched and run four news channels three continents - discusses the profound implications of this new. Aimed at entrepreneurs, media students, industry insiders and anyone interest on humanity, it serves as a step-by-step guide for launching a news channel in the digital age. They say that revolutions do not come with a manual. This one does. 'If you think the digital revolution in news spells the end of the 24-hour tv channel, read this book and think again.' '