What journalism could be - Zelizer, Barbie (Cambridge, United Kingdom Polity Press, 2017)
Imagining journalism beginnings -- Definitions of journalism -- Intro Section 1: Cues for considering key tensions in journalism / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck -- On "having been there": "eyewitnessing" as a journalistic key word -- On the shelf life of democracy in journalism scholarship -- When practice is undercut by ethics -- Intro section 2: Cues for considering disciplinary matters / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck -- Journalism and the academy -- Journalism in the service of communication -- When facts, truth, and reality are god-terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies -- Intro section 3: cues for considering new ways of thinking about journalistic practice / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck -- Journalists as interpretive communities -- The culture of journalism -- When war and conflict are reduced to a photograph -- Endings: thinking temporally about journalism's future.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-316) and index.
Keywords: Journalism