Consider news-as the product of a culture
What is news? What does news tell us about the culture and the society that produces and consumes it? This book provides a fresh examination of news production from a cultural perspective, moving beyond what was once called "sociology of news" and toward the globally-broader, culturally-based concept of "journalism studies."
Key Features
Twenty-three original and contemporary articles-encompassing the intrinsic cultures of print, broadcast, and online media-are grouped in six thematically cohesive sets.
The articles are presented chronologically to allow the reader to follow the exchange of ideas between authors over time.
Berkowitz looks at news globally, helping the student look beyond his or her own cultural context to that of many other societies.
A comprehensive framework helps to thoughtfully present this cultural study of news. Berkowitz opens and closes the text with a cultural perspective on news and hints on applying this perspective to emerging news situations; each section also contains an introduction that highlight connections between the articles.
Intended Audience
Cultural Meanings of News: A Text-Reader is ideal for a wide range of courses in any journalism studies curriculum, including Media and Society, Sociology of News, Media Criticism, and Popular Culture and Mass Media. This text may also be used as a companion to Berkowitz's Social Meaning of News: A Text-Reader, which addresses the sociological approach to news.
Acknowledgments - Dan Berkowitz
Introducation: From Journalistic Roots to Cultural Perspectives - Dan Berkowitz
Part I: A Framework for Thinking About the Meanings of News - Dan Berkowitz
1. Understanding the Global Journalist: A Hierarchy of Influences Approach - Stephen D. Reese
2. What Is Journalism? Preofessional Identity and Ideology of Journalists Reconsidered - Mark Deuze
3. Deconstructing Journalism Culture: Toward a Universal Theory - Thomas Hanitzsch
Part II: Cultural Practice of Journalism - Dan Berkowitz
4. The Socially Responsible Existentialist: A Normative Emphasis for Journalists in a New Media Environment - Jane B. Singer
5. Blasphemy as Sacred Rite/Right: 'The Mohammed Cartoons Affair' and Maintenance of Journalistic Ideology - Dan Berkowitz and Lyombe Eko
6. The Journalistic Gut Feeling: Journalistic Doxa, News Habitus and Orthodox News Values - Ida Schultz
7. Media Ritual in Catastrophic Time: The Populist Turn in Television Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - Frank Durham
Part III: Making Meaning in the Journalistic Interpretive Community - Dan Berkowitz
8. War Journalism and the 'KIA Journalist': The Cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly - Matt Carlson
9. The Importance of Ritual in Crisis Journalism - Kristina Riegert and Eva-Karin Olsson
10. 'Someone's Gotta Be in Control Here': The Institutionalization of Online News and the Creation of Shared Jounalistic Authority - Sue Robinson
11. Broader and Deeper: A Study of Newsroom Culture in a Time of Change - David Ryfe
Part IV: Repairing the Jounalistic Paradigm - Dan Berkowitz
12. The Princess and the Paparazzi: Blame, Responsibility, and the Media's Role in the Death of Diana - Elizabeth Blanks Hindman
13. 'These Crowded Circumstances': When Pack Journalists Bash Pack Journalism - Russell Frank
14. Israeli Image Repair: Recasting the Deviant Actor to Retell the Story - Robert L. Handley
15. A Paradigm in Process: What the Scapegoating of Vusi Mona Signalled About South African Journalism - Guy Berger
Part V: News Narratives as Cultural Text - Dan Berkowitz
16. Why Peace Journalism Isn't News - Liz Fawcett
17. 'Lost Boys' and the Promised Land: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Sudanese Refugees - Melinda B. Robins
18. Crafting Cultural Resonance: Imaginative Power in Everyday Journalism - James S. Ettema
19. Medea in the Media: Narrative and Myth in the Newspaper Coverage of Women Who Kill Their Children - Barbara Barnett
Part VI: News as Collective Memory - Dan Berkowitz
20. Reporting Through the Lens of the Past: From Challenger to Columbia - Jill Edy and Miglena Daradanova
21. Memory in Journalism and the Memory of Journalism: Israeli Journalists and the Constructed Legacy of Haolam Hazeh - Oren Meyes
22. Making Memories Matter: Journalistic Authority and the Memorializing Discourse Around Mary McGrory and David Brinkley - Matt Carlson
23. ' We Were All There': Remembering America in the Anniversary Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - Sue Robinson
Epilogue: Reflecting on Cultural Meanings of News - Dan Berkowitz
Index
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