Full Description
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 additional readings to broaden the volume's scope in every dimension, including gender, race, and nationality. The volume is arranged thematically to enable students to think deeply and broadly about journalism—its development, its practice, its key individuals and institutions, its social impact, and its future—and section introductions and headnotes precede each reading to provide context and key points for discussion.
Contents
Introduction: What We Should Know
Section I: The Development of Journalism
Introduction
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
Section II: Doing Journalism
Introduction
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
Section III: Biography
Introduction
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
Section IV: Classic Reporting
Introduction
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
Section V: Journalism and Society
Introduction
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 Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
On Television and Journalism, Pierre Bourdieu
