Covering America : a narrative history of a nation's journalism / Christopher B. Daly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daly, Christopher B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--United States--History.

Journalism.

Press--United States--History.

Press.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 533 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Today many believe that American journalism is in crisis, with traditional sources of news under siege from a failing business model, a resurgence of partisanship, and a growing expectation that all information ought to be free. In Covering America, Christopher B. Daly places the current crisis within a much broader historical context, showing how it is only the latest in a series of transitions that have required journalists to devise new ways of plying their trade. Drawing on original research and synthesizing the latest scholarship, Daly traces the evolution of journalism in America from the early 1700's to the digital revolution of today. Analyzing the news business as a business, he identifies five major periods of journalism history, each marked by a different response to the recurrent conflicts that arise when a vital cultural institution is housed in a major private industry. Throughout his narrative history, Daly captures the ethos of journalism with engaging anecdotes, biographical portraits of key figures, and illuminating accounts of the coverage of major news events as well as the mundane realities of day-to-day reporting."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The press, 1704/1920. Foundations of the American press, 1704/1763: Franklin and his contemporaries

Printers take sides, 1763/1832

Putting the news in newspapers, 1833/1850

Radicals all! 1830/1875: covering slavery and The Civil War

Crusaders and conservatives, 1875/1912: journalism in yellow and gray

Professionalizing the news in peace and war, 1900/1920

The media, 1920. Jazz age journalism, 1920/1929: magazines and radio challenge the newspaper

Hard times, 1929/1941: three great columnists, two great reporters, one horrible decade

The "good war," 1941/1945

Creating the big media, 1945/1963

Rocking the establishment, 1962/1972

The establishment holds, 1967/1974

Big media get bigger, 1980/1999

Going digital, 1995

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-249-6

1-61376-195-3

OCLC:

793012714