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Informationen zum Autor David M. Ryfe is Professor and Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Klappentext The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the "god-term" of journalism, "the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense." In the last thirty years, scholars have made great progress in understanding just what this means.In this much-needed new book, leading scholar David Ryfe takes readers on a journey through the literature that explores this most important of relationships. He discusses how and why journalism first emerged in the United States, and why journalism everywhere shares a family resemblance but is nowhere practised in precisely the same way. He goes on to explain why journalists have such difficulty talking about the business aspects of their profession, and explores the boundaries of the field's collective imagination. Ryfe looks at the nature of change in journalism, providing sketches of its possible futures. Ultimately, he argues that the public is a keyword for journalism because it is impossible to understand the practice without it.This rich and insightful guide will prove indispensable for anyone interested in understanding the practice of journalism. Zusammenfassung The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the god-term of journalism, the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense. In the last thirty years, scholars have made great progress in understanding just what this means. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures and Tables vii Preface viii Acknowledgements xi Introduction1 1 The Tradition 2 A New Approach 7 Plan of the Book 22 Chapter 1 Theory 22 Publics 30 Journalism 35 Journalism and the Public 40 Chapter 2 Emergence 47 Early Cases 49 The Development of American Field 59 The Field of French Journalism 67 The Form of News 70 Conclusion 73 Chapter 3 Outside the West 75 History 76 Markets 83 The Chinese Field of Journalism 87 Investigative Journalism 93 Conclusion 101 Chapter 4 The Journalistic Imagination 103 Normative Accounts 106 Journalists Should Tell the Truth 108 Journalists Should Build Community 112 Journalists Should Foster Deliberative Conversation 118 What Should Journalists Do? 125 Chapter 5 Journalism and Change 131 A Recap 132 Mapping Change 137 Time and Change 145 Persistence 149 Conclusion 156 Chapter 6 Moving Forward 158 What We Know 159 What We Do Not Know 163 References 174 Index 199 ...
