News culture
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News culture
（Issues in cultural and media studies）
Open University Press, 2004
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Previous ed.: Buckingham : Open University Press, 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-245) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
News Culture is an introduction to the forms, practices, institutions and audiences of journalism. It begins with a historical consideration of the rise of 'objective' reporting in newspaper, radio and televisual journalism. It explores the way news is produced, its textual conventions as a genre of discourse, and its negotiation by the reader, listener or viewer as part of everyday life. The text also examines the cultural dynamics of sexism and racism as they shape different instances of news coverage.Building on the success of the bestselling first edition, this new edition addresses the concerns of the new media age, featuring:
An expanded chapter on 'Good Journalism is Popular Culture' which engages with the key debates around tabloidization, infotainment and celebrity-driven journalism
A new chapter about online journalism and the Internet
Revisions throughout to take into account feedback from lecturers who have used the first edition.
This is a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in journalism, journalism studies, cultural and media studies, sociology and politics.
Table of Contents
Series editor's forewordIntroduction: The culture of news
1. The rise of 'objective' newspaper reporting
From smoke signals to daily newspapers
The emergence of popular journalism
Separating 'facts' from 'values'
The toil of ink-stained hacks
'Objectivity' as a professional ideal
Further reading
2. The early days of radio and television news
BBC News on the 'wireless'
The start of radio news in the USA
The limits of 'impartiality': British television news
US television news begins
Further reading
3. Making news: truth, ideology and newswork
Structuring public debate
News values and frames
Routinizing the unexpected
A hierarchy of credibility
Issues of access
Further reading
4. The cultural politics of news discourse
News and hegemony
The common sense of newspaper discourse
The language of radio news
The textuality of television news
'The obvious facts of the matter'
Further reading
5. News, audiences and everyday life
Mapping the newspaper audience
Sceptical laughter? Reading the tabloids
'Decoding' television news
The everydayness of news
Further reading
6. The gendered realities of journalism
Feminist critiques of objectivity
Macho culture of newswork
Gender politics of representationFurther reading
7. 'Us and them': racism in the news
Naturalizing racism
Reporting law and order
The enemy 'Other': journalism in wartime
Al-Jazeera and the sanitization of war
'Writing white': ethnic minorities and newswork
Further reading
8. Journalism on the web: September 11 and the war in Iraq
News on the internet
Reporting September 11
Citizen-produced coverage
Searching for answers
Blogging the war in Iraq
The digital divide
Further reading
9. 'Good journalism is popular culture'
Ratings, profits and relevance
Celebrities, tabloidization and infotainment
Strategies for change
Points of departure
Further reading
Glossary
References
Index
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