"When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance." "Working with a network of sources, Da…
Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than journalism, revealing two …
Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than journalism, revealing two …
Stuart Allan introduces the key concept of 'citizen witnessing' in order to rethink familiar assumptions underlying traditional distinctions between the 'amateur' and the 'professional' journalist. ... In bearing witness to what they see, ordinary people engage in unique forms o…
Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Waisbord takes this issue as his theme and argues that 'professional journalism' is both a normative and analytical notion. It refers to reporting tha…
Bringing together new and classic work by Tony Harcup, this book considers the development of alternative journalism from the 1970s up until today [2013]. Bringing theory and practice together, Harcup builds an understanding of alternative media through the use of detailed case …
"An interdisciplinary study examining the newspaper industry in Argentina during the regime of Juan Domingo Perón. Traces how Perón managed to integrate almost the entire Argentine press into a state-dominated media empire"--Provided by publisher.
"Based on newly available and extensive archival evidence, this book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947. Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb argues that newspaper publishers formed news associations and patronized news age…
Just a decade after the first printing press arrived in Honolulu in 1820, American Protestant missionaries produced the first newspaper in the Islands. More than a thousand daily, weekly, or monthly papers in nine different languages have appeared since then. Today they are ofte…
"Provides guiding principles and values for practising responsible global media ethics"--
"Despite years of dominating journalism school classrooms across North America, women remain vastly underrepresented at the highest levels of newspaper leadership. Why do so many female journalists leave the industry and so few reach the top? Interviewing female journalists at d…