American Journalism History Reader

Name: American Journalism History Reader
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ISBN: 9780415801874

ISBN-10: 0415801877

ISBN-13: 9780415801874

Edition: 2010

Authors: Bonnie S. Brennen, Hanno Hardt

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The American Journalism History Reader presents important primary texts'”news articles and essays about journalism from all stages of the history of the American press'”alongside key works of journalism history and criticism. The volume aims to place journalism history in its theoretical context, to familiarize the reader with essential works of'”and about'”journalism, and to chart the development of the field.The reader moves chronologically through American journalism history from the 18th century to the present, combining classic sources and contemporary insights. Each century's section begins with a critical introduction, which establishes the social and political environment in which…

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List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Bonnie Brennen is Associate Professor in the Journalism School at the University of Missouri and editor of Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography and Newsworkers: Towards a History of Rank and File.



Acknowledgments


Genral Introduction




Historiography


Introduction To Part One



American Journalism and its Historical Treatment




The Problem Journalism History




The Ossification of Journalism History




Theory And History




A Revolution in Historiography?




Age of Public Enlightenment


Introduction to Part Two



An Apology For Printers




The Fourth Epoch 1783-1832




Printers And The American Revolution




The Colonial Journalist




The Federal Era III




The End of the Beginning




Age of Universal Literacy


Introduction to Part Three



Reflections On Journalism




The Immigrant And Assimilation




Front-Page Girl




The Editorial Staff




Technology and Ideology




Changes in News During the Nineteenth Century




Paper Print for the Masses




American Political Parties and the Press




Age of Information


Introduction to Part Four



Writing News and Telling Stories




The Reporter and the News




Pay and Pecuniary Reward




The House of Lords




A Neglected Story




The Disappearing Daily




Voices




The Beginnings




Democracy and the News




Diaectical Tensions in The American Media Past and Futuer




Fact And Fiction




"A Fighting Press"



Further Reading


Index