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On Press
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the American press embraced a new way of reporting and selling the news. The causes were many: the proliferation of television, pressure to rectify the news media's dismal treatment of minorities and women, accusations of bias from left and right, and the migration of affluent subscribers to suburbs. As Matthew Pressman's timely history reveals, during these tumultuous decades the core values that held the profession together broke apart, and the distinctive characteristics of contemporary American journalism emerged. Simply reporting the facts was no longer enough. In a country facing assassinations, a failing war in Vietnam, and presidential impeachment, reporters recognized a pressing need to interpret and analyze events for their readers. Objectivity and impartiality, the cornerstones of journalistic principle, were not jettisoned, but they were reimagined. Journalists'adoption of an adversarial relationship with government and big business, along with sympathy for the dispossessed, gave their reporting a distinctly liberal drift. Yet at the same time, “soft news”—lifestyle, arts, entertainment—moved to the forefront of editors'concerns, as profits took precedence over politics.Today, the American press stands once again at a precipice. Accusations of political bias are more rampant than ever, and there are increasing calls from activists, customers, advertisers, and reporters themselves to rethink the values that drive the industry. As On Press suggests, today's controversies—the latest iteration of debates that began a half-century ago—will likely take the press in unforeseen directions and challenge its survival.
Journalism Standards of Work Today: Using History to Create a New Code of Journalism Ethics
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This research examines journalism ethics to answer the questions of whether we still need journalism ethics in the twenty-first century, if it is possible to exercise journalistic standards of work and, if so, on what values should these ethics be based in a world much different from that which existed when the first journalism codes of ethics were formulated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To distil the motivations and essence of the early journalistic standards of work, the book discusses the function of media in a democracy and the formation of mass media during the first industrial revolution, as well as its consequential change in journalists'locus of control and how journalists self-identified. The sudden creation of mass media pushed some journalists to create ethical principles which would guide the newly empowered press, an effort which culminated in the creation of the first national code of journalistic ethics in 1923. The book closely examines the elements of the 1923 “Canons of Journalism”, finding them to contain timeless values, despite their original application to now dated technology. It highlights the basic elements and applies them to media today, in a way that interfaces with new technology without abandoning the essential components of equipping citizens for representative governance.
Censored 2001
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The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories. Beyond the Top 25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics.
Twentieth-Century Journalists: America's Opinionmakers
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Eugene Field : bridge to the twentieth century -- L. Frank Baum : creator of an American metaphor -- Ida M. Tarbell : the greatest muckraker -- Howard Garis : columnist as storyteller -- Edward R. Bok : editor for women -- Franklin P. Adams : literate columnist -- Don Marquis : that damned cockroach -- George S. Schuyler : black press iconoclast -- Ring Lardner : sportswriting as literature -- Edmund Duffy : tiger on a rampage -- Ernest Hemingway : mythic journalist -- Heywood Broun : columnist as crusader -- Dorothy Thompson : journalism's most influential woman -- Henry R. Luce : Time, Life and the American century -- Margaret Bourke-White : photojournalist : editorials in pictures -- Walter Winchell : reporting gossip, and rumor -- Robert Benchley : press criticism with humor -- John Gunther : journalism becomes history -- H.L. Mencken : influence on a whole generation -- Walter Lippmann : the last titan -- Edward R. Murrow : broadcast journalist nonpareil.
Brilliant Bylines: A Biographical Anthology of Notable Newspaperwomen in America by Barbara Belford
Call Number: PN4872.B45
ISBN: 0231054971
Publication Date: 1986
A biography of notable Newspaperwomen in America.
The Virtuous Journalist
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