Making Journalists : Diverse Models, Global Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415315012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 312 str.

Hugo De Burgh

Opis

If journalists have power in the constructing of public discourses, how are they taught to use this power?
"Making Journalists" examines journalism practices and professionalism in countries as varied as China, Cameroon, India and Italy, as well as the US and the UK. The contributors offer insights into models of journalism as they are taught and learnt across the globe. They look at what journalism is in different societies, the contradictions between national and professional cultures, how education "makes" the journalist and thus the news and what the ethical implications of these processes are. They offer a valuable corrective to simplistic assumptions about globalization of the media.
When news reporting can lead to decisions on whether or not to go to war, we are all affected by the power of journalists and how they mediate our world.

Spis treści

The Making of Journalists: The present and futures of journalists around the world Foreword James Curran  Introduction: Journalism and the new cultural paradigm Hugo de Burgh  Notes on Contributors  Section 1: Journalism and Journalists  What is Journalism? Brian McNair Who are Journalists? David H. Weaver  Journalism and the Making of a Profession Howard Tumber and Marina Prentoulis  Section 2: Journalism and Location Is there a European Model of Journalism? Paolo Mancini  The US Model of Journalism: Exception or exemplar? Michael Schudson  The Conception of Chinese Journalists: Idealogical convergence and contestation Chin-Chuan Lee  Adapting to Globalization: The changing contours of journalism in India Daya Kishan Thussu  The Changing Dynamics of Arab Journalism Naomi Sakr  African Journalism and the Struggle for Democratic Media Helge Rønning  From Lapdog to Watchdog: The role of the press in Latin America's modernization Rosental Calmon Alves  Section 3: Journalism and the Future  The Evolution of Journalism Education in the United States Betty Medsger  Who's to Make Journalists? Angela Phillips  Running the Technological Gauntlet: New media and journalism John V. Pavlik  Can we Make Journalists Better? Theodore L. Glasser and Lise Marken

O autorze

Hugo de Burgh is Professor of Journalism at the University of Westminster. He writes on relationships between journalism and modernisation and has published books on the history of journalism in China, and on investigative journalism.