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When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Matt Carlson weaves together journalists¿ relationships with their audiences, sources, technologies, and critics to present a new model for understanding journalism as a relationship while advocating for practices we need in an age of fake news and shifting norms.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Many Relationships of Journalism
Part I. Foundations of Journalistic Authority1. Professionalism as Privilege and Distance: Journalistic Identity
2. Texts and Textual Authority: Forms of Journalism
3. Telling Stories About Themselves: Journalism's Narratives
Part II. Journalistic Authority in Context4. Recognizing Journalistic Authority: The Public's Opinion
5. Legitimating Knowledge Through Knowers: News Sources
6. Mediating Authority: The Technologies of Journalism
7. Challenging Journalistic Authority: The Role of Media Criticism
Conclusion: The Politics of Journalistic Authority
Notes
Index
About the author
Matt Carlson is associate professor of communication at Saint Louis University. He is author of
On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism (2011) and coeditor of
Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation (2015) and
Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives (2010).
Summary
When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Matt Carlson weaves together journalists’ relationships with their audiences, sources, technologies, and critics to present a new model for understanding journalism as a relationship while advocating for practices we need in an age of fake news and shifting norms.
