Key Readings in Journalism (Hardcover)

Introduction: What We Should Know Section I: The Development of Journalism Introduction Discovering the News, Michael Schudson A Place in the News, Kay Mills Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph, James W. Carey The African American Newspaper, Pat Washburn Comparative Media History, Jane Chapman Free for All: The Internet’s Transformation of Journalism, Elliot King Section II: Doing Journalism Introduction Deciding What’s News, Herbert Gans The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn The Race Beat, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff The First Casualty, M. Phillip Knightley All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward The Girls in the Balcony, Nan Robertson Section III: Biography Introduction Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power, James McGrath Morris The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Lincoln Steffens Margaret Bourke White: A Biography, Vicki Goldberg Murrow: His Life and Times, A.M.Sperber Breaking Barriers, Carl Rowan Personal History, Katherine Graham Section IV: Classic Reporting Introduction Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, Ida Wells-Barnett A History of Standard Oil Company, Ida Tarbell Ernie’s War, David Nichols Silent Spring, Rachel Carson In Cold Blood, Truman Capote The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse Section V: Journalism and Society Introduction Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann The Brass Check, Upton Sinclair A Free and Responsible Press: The Hutchins Committee Response, Robert D. Leigh The Press, A.J. Liebling Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky On Television and Journalism, Pierre Bourdieu