What journalism could be / Barbie Zelizer.
"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, promp...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
2017.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Imagining journalism
- Beginnings : Twelve metaphors for journalism
- Section I. Key tensions in journalism : Cues for considering key tensions in journalism / with Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck
- "Eyewitnessing" as a journalistic key word: report, role, technology and aura
- How the shelf life of democracy in journalism scholarship hampers coverage of the refugee crisis
- Practice, ethics, scandal, terror
- Section II. Disciplinary matters : Cues for considering disciplinary matters / with Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck
- Journalism and the academy, revisited
- Journalism still in the service of communication
- On journalism and cultural studies : when facts, truth, and reality are god-terms
- Section III. New ways of thinking about journalistic practice : Cues for considering new ways of thinking about journalistic practice / with Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck
- A return to journalists as interpretive communities
- Reflecting on the culture of journalism
- When 21st-century war and conflict are reduced to a photograph
- Endings : Thinking temporally about journalism's future.