Key readings in journalism

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This work brings together the essential writings that every student of journalism should know. It presents 40 of the most important works about journalism arranged thematically to enable students to think deeply and broadly about journalism - its social impact, its history, key individuals and institutions, its practice and its future.

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Full title :Key readings in journalism / edited by Elliot King & Jane L. Chapman.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 413 pages ; : 26 cm

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ISBN:9780415880275, 0415880270, 9780415880282, 0415880289, 0203723872, 9780203723876
oclc:ocn758844901
LC Classification:PN4857
Dewey Decimal:071/.3

Introduction: what we should know -- The development of journalism. Discovering the news / Michael Schudson -- A place in the news / Kay Mills -- Technology and ideology: the case of the telegraph / James W. Carey -- The African American newspaper / Pat Washburn -- Comparative media history / Jane Chapman -- Free for all: the Internet's transformation of journalism / Elliot King -- Doing Journalism. Deciding what's news / Herbert Gans -- The face of war / Martha Gellhorn -- The race beat / Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff -- The first casualty / M. Phillip Knightley -- All the President's men / Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward -- The girls in the balcony / Nan Robertson -- Biography. Pulitzer: a life in politics, print and power / James McGrath Morris -- The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens / Lincoln Steffens -- Margaret Bourke White: a biography / Vicki Goldberg -- Murrow: his life and times / A.M. Sperber -- Breaking barriers / Carl Rowan -- Personal history / Katherine Graham -- Classic reporting. Southern horrors: Lynch Law in all its phases / Ida Wells-Barnett -- A history of Standard Oil Company / Ida Tarbell -- Ernie's war / David Nichols -- Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- …

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American newspapers American newspapers -- History Berichterstattung Biographies Gesellschaft History journalism Journalism -- United States Journalismus Journalist Journalister -- biografi. -- Förenta st… Journalistes -- Biographies. -- États-U… Journalistik -- Förenta staterna Journalists Journalists -- Biography. -- United Sta… Journaux américains -- Histoire Medien Reportage -- Förenta staterna Reporters and reporting Reporters and reporting -- United States