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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158564903321

Autore

Zelizer Barbie

Titolo

What journalism could be / / Barbie Zelizer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK ; ; Malden, MA : , : Polity Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-5095-0790-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

070.4

Soggetti

Journalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.