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Key readings in journalism / edited by Elliot King and Jane L. Chapman.

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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 jou...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: King, Elliot, 1953-, Chapman, Jane, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Subjects:
Journalism > United States.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Reporters and reporting > United States.
American newspapers > History.
American newspapers.
Journalism.
Journalists.
Reporters and reporting.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • In cold blood / Truman Capote
  • The boys on the bus / Timothy Crouse
  • Journalism and society. Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Public opinion / Walter Lippmann
  • The brass check / Upton Sinclair
  • A free and responsible press: the Hutchins Committee response / Robert D. Leigh
  • The press / A.J. Liebling
  • Manufacturing consent: the political cconomy of the mass media / Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
  • On television and journalism / Pierre Bourdieu.

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