Former professional editor of THE BRAND NEW York Times and among our most eminent journalists Jill Abramson offers a “valuable and insightful” (The Boston World) report for the disruption of the news headlines media over the last 10 years, as shown via two legacy (The New York Times as well as the Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution that pits aged vs. new media.

“A marvelous reserve” (The New York Times Reserve Review), Merchants of Truth may be the groundbreaking and about The Merchants of Truth: THE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE of News and the Battle for Facts gripping story from the precarious state of the news business.

The brand new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials. “Abramson provides this deeply reported insider accounts of an industry fighting for survival. With an enthusiastic eye for details and a determination to interrogate her have profession, Abramson will take readers in to the newsrooms and boardrooms from the legacy papers as well as the digital upstarts that seek to challenge their dominance” (Vanity Fair). We get to know the defenders of the legacy presses as well as the outsized character types who are creating the brand new speed-driven mass media competition. The players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron (The Washington Post), Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet (The New York Occasions), Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed), and Shane Smith (VICE) aswell as their reporters and stressed readers.

Vendors of Truth boosts crucial questions that concern the well-being of our culture. We are facing an emergency in trust that threatens the free of charge press. “One of the best takes yet on journalism’s changing fortunes” (Web publishers Regular, starred review), Abramson’s reserve points us to the future.