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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784370203321

Titolo

Newsworkers [[electronic resource] ] : toward a history of the rank and file / / Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8695-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HardtHanno

BrennenBonnie

Disciplina

070.9

Soggetti

Press - History

Mass media - History

Reporters and reporting

Press - United States - History

Mass media - United States - History

Reporters and reporting - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Without the Rank and File: Journalism History, Media Workers, and Problems of Representation; 2 Discursive Strategies of Exclusion: The Ideological Construction of Newsworkers; 3 The Emergence of the Reporter: Mechanization and the Devaluation of Editorial Workers; 4 Cultural Discourse of Journalists: The Material Conditions of Newsroom Labor; 5 The Site of Newsroom Labor: The Division of Editorial Practices; 6 Words against Images: Positioning Newswork in the Age of Photography; 7 Alternative Visions: The Intellectual Heritage of Nonconformist Journalists in Canada

8 Newsboys: The Exploitation of ""Little Merchants"" by the Newspaper Industry Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the period from the 1850's through the 1930's, the contributors show how issues of labor and class have been far more important in the formation of media institutions than previous accounts concede. These essays recover the history of ethnic and cultural diversity-including the contributions of women-that have enriched the process of communication.