Journalism today : a themed history /

• Main Author: Chapman, Jane, 1950-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nuttall, Nick
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Subjects: Journalism > History.; Mass media > History.; Journalism > Social aspects.; Mass media > Social aspects.; Journalism.; Mass media.; Electronic books.; History.

Journalism Today: A Themed History provides a cultural approach to journalism's history through the exploration of overarching concepts, as opposed to a typical chronological overview. Rich with illuminating stories and biographies of key figures, it sheds new light on the relationship between...

Table of Contents:

• Journalism and Democracy. Part Introduction
• A Right to Know
• The Road not Taken
• Digging the Dirt
• Spinning a Good Yarn and Developing Community
• Technology, Work, and Business: Is Journalism more than Just a Job?. Part Introduction
• Changing Roles in a Changing World
• A New Journalism for a New Age
• He Who Pays the Piper
• A Power Worth Fighting for
• Ethics: A Matter of Judgment?. Part Introduction
• Private and Confidential?
• Fakes, Rakes, and 'On the take'
• Audience: Citizen Consumer or Consumer Citizen?. Part Introduction
• Finding an Audience
• How Audiences Rewrote the Script
• Watching and Listening
• Conclusion: A Future History. Part Introduction
• Paper Tigers?
• Index.