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Social Meanings of News
A Text-Reader
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April 1997 | 549 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
What is news and why does it turn out the way it does? These questions are addressed in this Reader. Classic news studies representing several methodologies and approaches are presented to guide students in their initial exploration into the topics. Berkowitz provides an orientation for a social approach to studying news, departing from the premise that news is a human construction that gains its characteristics through the social world from which it emerges. The first section of readings introduces a theoretical background for analyzing the sections that follow. Each of the eight sections are clearly and concisely introduced by Berkowitz, enabling students to interpret the salient points from and implications of representative articles in the field.
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
Why a 'Social Meanings of News' Perspective?
PART ONE: A FRAMEWORK FOR THINKING ABOUT NEWS
Michael Schudson
The Sociology of News Production
Barbie Zelizer
Has Communication Explained Journalism?
James S Ettema, D Charles Whitney, and Daniel B Wackman
Professional Mass Communicators
SECTION TWO: NEWS AS SOCIAL PRODUCTION
PART TWO: SELECTING NEWS: THE INDIVIDUAL GATE KEEPER
Pamela J Shoemaker
A New Gatekeeping Model
David Manning White
The Gate Keeper
Glenn L Bleske
Ms Gates Takes Over
Dan A Berkowitz
Refining the Gatekeeping Metaphor for Local Television News
G A Donohue, C N Olien, and P J Tichenor
Structure and Constraints on Community Newspaper Gatekeepers
PART THREE: ORGANIZING NEWS: NEWS AS A WORKPLACE PRODUCT
Warren Breed
Social Control in the News Room
Charles R Bantz
News Organizations
John Soloski
News Reporting and Professionalism
Sharon Dunwoody
Science Writers at Work
PART FOUR: PROFESSIONALIZING NEWS: NEWS AS JOURNALISTS' NORMS AND ROUTINES
Gaye Tuchman
Making News by Doing Work
Harvey Molotch and Marilyn Lester
News as Purposive Behavior
Mark Fishman
News and Non-Events
Nina Eliasoph
Routines and the Making of Oppositional News
PART FIVE: SELLING NEWS: NEWS AS ECONOMIC ENTITY
J Herbert Altschull
Boundaries of Journalistic Autonomy
Charles R Bantz, Suzanne McCorkle and Roberta C Baade
The News Factory
John McManus
The First Stage of News Production
Matthew C Ehrlich
The Competitive Ethos in Television Newswork
SECTION THREE: NEWS AS TEXT
PART SIX: TELLING NEWS: NEWS AS FAMILIAR STORY
Robert Rutherford Smith
Mythic Elements in Television News
S Elizabeth Bird and Robert W Dardenne
Myth, Chronicle, and Story
Richard C Vincent, Bryan K Crow and Dennis K Davis
When Technology Fails
Dan A Berkowitz
Non-Routine News and Newswork
Jack Lule
The Rape of Mike Tyson
PART SEVEN: IDEOLOGY AND NEWS: NEWS AS SOCIAL POWER
Barbara Zelizer
Journalists as Interpretive Communities
Stephen D Reese
The News Paradigm and the Ideology of Objectivity
Marian Meyers
News of Battering
James Stewart Ettema
Press Rites and Race Relations
Cynthia-Lou Coleman
Science, Technology, and Risk Coverage of a Community Conflict
PART EIGHT: EPILOGUE: APPLYING THE TOOLS TO STUDY NEWS
Classic readings remaining relevant for a study of media theory today
School of Media, London College of Communication
August 8, 2013
Rather than scout out the library for all the key journalism texts - get this book! Throughout the years I have taught journalism studies, Journalism methods and Journalism practice, this book has been a vital element in my teaching. Likewise, it has been and will continue to be, a key textbook to my future journalism course.
Inst for Information & Media Studies, Aarhus University
February 22, 2012