Custodians of Conscience Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue

Name: Custodians of Conscience Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue
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ISBN: 9780231106757

ISBN-10: 0231106750

ISBN-13: 9780231106757

Edition: 1998

Authors: James Ettema, Theodore Glasser, Theodore L. Glasser, Theodore L. Glasser

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This book is the culmination of more than a decade of research and writing on the nature of investigative journalism as a form of social and moral inquiry. Focusing on the work of a number of award-winning investigative reporters, James S. Ettema and Theodore L. Glasser punctuate their analysis of news and journalism with interviews with these writers and excerpts from their stories. Custodians of Conscience provides a powerful assessment and critique of the tensions and contradictions that characterize modern American journalism. It is a book that honors the rigor and importance of investigative journalism by showing how facts implicate values and by explaining why the future of news…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: The Reporter's Craft as Moral Discourse



In Search of Skills Not Taught in Textbooks



The Paradox of the Disengaged Conscience



The Irony of Irony-in-Journalism



The Morality of Narrative Form



The Intimate Interdependence of Fact and Value



Journalistic Judgment and the Reporter's Responsibility



The Value(s) of News


Notes


Bibliography


Index