Journalism : Critical Issues
Contents: Introduction: hidden in plain sight--journalism's critical issues/Stuart Allan. I. Journalism's histories: 1. Intimately intertwined in the most public way: celebrity and journalism/P. David Marshall. 2. Race, ideology and journalism: black power and television news/Jane Rhodes. 3. The 'gender matters' debate in journalism: lessons from the front/Linda Steiner. 4. Journalism ethics: towards an Orwellian critique?/Richard Keeble. 5. News on the web: the emerging forms and practices of online journalism/Stuart Allan. II. Journalism and democracy: 6. Is there a democratic deficit in US and UK journalism?/Robert A. Hackett. 7. Active citizen or couch potato? Journalism and public opinion/Justin Lewis and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen. 8. In defence of 'thick' journalism; or how television journalism can be good for us/Simon Cottle. 9. Fourth estate of fan club? Sports journalism engages the popular/David Rowe. 10. McJournalism: the local press and the McDonaldization thesis/Bob Franklin. 11. The emerging chaos of global news culture/Brian McNair. III. Journalism's realities: 12. Journalism through the camera's eye/Barbie Zelizer. 13. Mighty dread: journalism and moral panics/Chas Critcher. 14. Communication or spin? Source-media relations in science journalism/Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen and Matthew David. 15. Risk reporting: why can't they ever get it right?/Susanna Hornig Priest. 16. News talk: interaction in the broadcast news interview/Ian Hutchby. 17. 'A fresh peach is easier to bruise': children and traumatic news/Cynthia Carter and Maire Messenger Davies. IV. Journalism and the politics of othering: 18. Talking war: how journalism responded to the events of 9/11/Martin Montgomery. 19. Banal journalism: the centrality of the 'us-them' binary in news discourse/Prasun Sonwalkar. 20. Racialized 'othering': the representation of asylum seekers in the news media/Olga Guedes Bailey and Ramaswami Harindranath. 21. Women in the boyzone: gender, news and herstory/Karen Ross. 22. Gendered news practices: examining experiences of women journalists in different national contexts/Minelle Mahtani. V. Journalism and the public interest: 23. Subterfuge as public service: investigative journalism as idealized journalism/Michael Bromley. 24. Opportunity or threat? The BBC, investigative journalism and the Hutton report/Steven Barnett. 25. Journalism, media conglomerates and the federal communications commission/Oliver Boyd-Barrett. 26. News in the global public space/Ingrid Volkmer. 27. Journalism and the war in Iraq/Howard Tumber. Index.
"Over the years it has been frequently remarked that journalism is at a crossroads--indeed so often that it risks sounding somewhat clichéd--yet there is every indication that its very forms, practices and institutions are being decisively transformed, with startling implications. Accordingly, the principal aim of this book is to help provide the basis for new dialogues to emerge regarding journalism today, as well as about where it may be heading tomorrow.
Journalism: Critical Issues poses a series of important questions afresh, questions deserving of much greater attention than they have typically received to date. Each of the contributors seeks to challenge conventional ways of thinking about the 'critical issue' at stake in their respective chapter. In so doing, it is their intention to further our understanding, but also to encourage future explorations with the potential to revitalise journalism studies. In adopting this approach, it is hoped that this book will make for a lively, argumentative (in the best sense of the word) and engaging intervention. It is an essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of news and journalism, media studies, cultural studies, sociology and communication studies." (jacket)
