Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.From News to Talk examines what journalists think about the movement toward often opinionated sometimes uncivil talk in news. It provides an important intervention in debates about the future of news by investigating what journalists themselves perceive as the forces affecting this movement the effects of this shift on audiences and political culture and how the movement from news to talk affects their roles and authority in society. Drawing on more than thirty interviews with journalists and other industry professionals and a decade of published journalistic materials Kimberly Meltzer uncovers the technological economic cultural and political forces affecting the movement toward opinion and commentaryor talkin television online print and radio news.