Everyman news : the changing American front page / by Michele Weldon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weldon, Michele, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feature stories--United States--History--21st century.

Feature stories.

American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc--Front pages.

American newspapers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Examines how newspapers have changed over the past few years, becoming story papers. Comparing 850 stories, story approaches, and unofficial sourcing in twenty American newspapers from 2001 and 2004, Weldon reveals a shift toward features over hard news, along with an increase in anecdotal or humanistic approaches to all stories"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Everyman News The Changing American Front Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Everyman and Everywoman on the Front Page

Chapter 1 Should the Personal Become Universal?

Chapter 2 The Results: An Anecdotal Companion to History

Chapter 3 Content as Commodity: Giving Readers What They Want

Chapter 4 Citizen Journalism and Chicken Little

Chapter 5 What's Blogging Got to Do with It?

Chapter 6 Humanizing the News after 9/11

Chapter 7 The Old, the New, the Good, the Bad, and the Long and the Short of Narrative

Chapter 8 Diversity of Thought Shifts Content

Chapter 9 The Therapeutic Story Flow Model

Chapter 10 Fifteen Seconds of Fame: A Cultural Reverence for Story

Chapter 11 Emergence Journalism: Where We Go from Here

Appendix: Data from Twenty Newspapers Measuring Features, Feature Leads, and Unofficial Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-279) and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6624-X

OCLC:

320323796