What journalism could be / Barbie Zelizer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zelizer, Barbie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism.

Physical Description:

viii, 328 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017.

Summary:

What Journalism Could Be" asks readers to re-imagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism s leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalism s complicated contours, prompting readers to rethink both how the news works and why it matters. Zelizer tackles longstanding givens in journalism s practice and study, offering alternative cues for assessing its contemporary environment. Highlighting journalism's intersection with interpretation, culture, emotion, contingency, collective memory, crisis and visuality, Zelizer brings new meaning to its engagement with events like the global refugee crisis, rise of the Islamic State, ascent of digital media and 21st century combat. Imagining what journalism could be involves stretching beyond the already known. Zelizer enumerates journalism s considerable current challenges while suggesting bold and creative ways of engaging with them. This book powerfully demonstrates how and why journalism remains of paramount importance.

Contents:

Imagining journalism beginnings

Definitions of journalism

Intro Section 1: Cues for considering key tensions in journalism / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck

On "having been there": "eyewitnessing" as a journalistic key word

On the shelf life of democracy in journalism scholarship

When practice is undercut by ethics

Intro section 2: Cues for considering disciplinary matters / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck

Journalism and the academy

Journalism in the service of communication

When facts, truth, and reality are god-terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

Intro section 3: cues for considering new ways of thinking about journalistic practice / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck

Journalists as interpretive communities

The culture of journalism

When war and conflict are reduced to a photograph

Endings: thinking temporally about journalism's future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Zelizer, Barbie, author. What journalism could be.

ISBN:

9781509507863

1509507868

9781509507870

1509507876

OCLC:

966207005