Key Readings in Journalism (Paperback)

Introduction: What We Should Know

Section I: The Development of Journalism

Introduction

1. Discovering the News, Michael Schudson
2. A Place in the News, Kay Mills
3. Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph, James W. Carey
4. The African American Newspaper, Pat Washburn
5. Comparative Media History, Jane Chapman
6. Free for All: The Internet’s Transformation of Journalism, Elliot King

Section II: Doing Journalism

Introduction

7. Deciding What’s News, Herbert Gans
8. The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn
9. The Race Beat, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
10. The First Casualty, M. Phillip Knightley
11. All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
12. The Girls in the Balcony, Nan Robertson

Section III: Biography

Introduction

13. Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power, James McGrath Morris
14. The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Lincoln Steffens
15. Margaret Bourke White: A Biography, Vicki Goldberg
16. Murrow: His Life and Times, A.M.Sperber
17. Breaking Barriers, Carl Rowan
18. Personal History, Katherine Graham

Section IV: Classic Reporting

Introduction

19. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, Ida Wells-Barnett
20. A History of Standard Oil Company, Ida Tarbell
21. Ernie’s War, David Nichols
22. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
23. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
24. The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse

Section V: Journalism and Society

Introduction

25. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
26. Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann
27. The Brass Check, Upton Sinclair
28. A Free and Responsible Press: The Hutchins Committee Response, Robert D. Leigh
29. The Press, A.J. Liebling
30. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
31. On Television and Journalism, Pierre Bourdieu