Watchdog Still Barks - How Accountability Reporting Evolved for the Digital Age

Beth Knobel is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Before joining the Fordham faculty, she was an Emmy-award winning producer for CBS News. She is co-author with the legendary CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace of Heat and Light: Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists.

List of contents

1. The Watchdog Still Barks 000

2. Bigger Means Better

3. The Workhorse of the Watchdogs

4. America's Most Vulnerable

5. If Not Now, When

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the author

Beth Knobel is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Before joining the Fordham faculty, she was an Emmy-award winning producer for CBS News. She is co-author with the legendary CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace of Heat and Light: Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists.

Summary

Perhaps no function of the press is as important as being a watchdog over the government. Based on the first content analysis to focus specifically on accountability journalism nationally, this book shows how American newspapers held fast to the watchdog role in the digital age, despite financial and technological challenges.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Knobel
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780823279340
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7934-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Donald McGannon Communication; Donald McGannon Communication Research Center's Everett C. Parker Book Series; Donald McGannon Communication Research Center's Everett C. Parker Book Series; Donald McGannon Communication
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism