Key Readings in Journalism

Key Readings in Journalism brings together over thirty essential writings that every student of journalism should know. Designed as a primary text for undergraduate students, each reading was carefully chosen in response to extensive surveys from educators reflecting on the needs of today's journalism classroom. Readings range from critical and historical studies of journalism, such as Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion and Michael Schudson's Discovering the News, to examples of classic reporting, such as Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's All the President's Men. They are supplemented by additio.

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 -- …