The American journalism history reader : critical and primary texts / edited by Bonnie Brennen and Hanno Hardt.

Other author Brennen, Bonnie.
Other author Hardt, Hanno.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2011.
Descriptionx, 500 pages ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents American journalism and its historical treatment / Allan Nevins -- The problem of journalism history / James W. Carey -- The ossification of journalism history / Margaret A. Blanchard -- Theory and history / John Nerone -- A revolution in historiography? / Michael Schudson -- An apology for printers / Benjamin Franklin -- The fourth epoch 1783-1832 / Frederic Hudson -- Printers and the American revolution / Stephen Botein -- The colonial journalist / Jeffery A. Smith -- The federal era III / Walt Brown -- The end of the beginning / Eric Burns -- Reflections on journalism / H.L. Mencken -- The immigrant press and assimilation / Robert E. Park -- Front-page girl / Ishbel Ross -- The editorial staff / Alfred McClung Lee -- Technology and ideology / James W. Carey -- Changes in news during the nineteenth century / Hazel Dicken-Garcia -- Paper prints for the masses / Michael L. Carlebach -- American political parties and the press / Gerald J. Baldasty -- Writing news and telling stories / Robert Darnton -- The reporter and the news / Will Irwin -- Pay and pecuniary reward / Talcott Williams -- The House of Lords / George Seldes -- A neglected story / Silas Bent -- The disappearing daily / Oswald Garrison Villard -- Voices / Erik Barnouw -- The beginnings / Daniel J. Leab -- Democracy and the news / Dan Schiller -- Dialectical tensions in the American media, past and future / Daniel J. Czitrom -- Fact and fiction / David R. Spencer -- A fighting press / Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010014324
ISBN9780415801867 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415801869 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415801874 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0415801877 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN4855 .A44 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold