The American Journalist in the Digital Age - A Half-Century Perspective

More than a decade has passed since the last comprehensive survey of U.S. journalists was carried out in 2002 by scholars at Indiana University-and the news and the journalists who produce it have undergone dramatic changes and challenges. The American Journalist in the Digital Age is based on interviews with a national probability sample of nearly 1,100 U.S. journalists in the fall of 2013 to document the tremendous changes that have occurred in U.S. journalism in the past decade, many of them due to the rise of new communication technologies and social media. This survey of journalists updates the findings from previous studies and asks new questions about the impact of new technologies and social media in the newsroom, and it includes more nontraditional online journalists than the previous studies.

List of contents

Foreword by G. Cleveland Wilhoit - Preface - Acknowledgments - Organization of the Book - Tables and Figures - Introduction - Basic Characteristics of U.S. Journalists - Education and Training - Journalists in the Workplace - Professionalism: Roles, Values, and Ethics - Women Journalists - Minority Journalists - Social Media and U.S. Journalism - Conclusions - Bibliography - Appendix I: Methodology - Appendix II: Questionnaire - Name Index - Subject Index - About the Authors

About the author

Lars Willnat is the John Ben Snow Research Professor at Syracuse University and earned his PhD from Indiana University. David H. Weaver is Distinguished Professor and the Roy W. Howard Research Professor Emeritus in Journalism at Indiana University. Weaver earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina. G. Cleveland Wilhoit is Emeritus Professor at Indiana University and earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina.

Report

"...The richness of the data provided here cannot be overstated. Any serious scholar of American journalism should consult this book often as a touchstone for how American journalists changed and did not change during the past half century." Stephen Lacy, Michigan State University, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96/2019

Product details

• Authors: David H. Weaver, Weaver David H., G. Cleveland Wilhoit, Wilhoit G. Cleveland, Lars Willnat, Willnat Lars
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781433128271
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-2827-1
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Illustrations: 117 Abb.
• Series: Mass Communication and Journalism; Mass Communication and Journalism; Mass Communication & Journalism
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous; USA, David, american, digital, Harrison, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Journalist, perspective, Cleveland, Press & journalism, Lars, United States of America, USA, Weaver, Century, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, half, Kathryn, Wilhoit, Willnat