Newsworkers

Author : Daniel A. Berkowitz
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761900764
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Meanings of News written by Daniel A. Berkowitz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-03-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader presents classic news studies representing several methodologies and approaches to guide students in their initial exploration into the topics.

Author : Hanno Hardt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816627061
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newsworkers written by Hanno Hardt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What most of us know about media history begins and ends with Citizen Kane. The exploits of media moguls and visionary business leaders - these are the tales that fill media histories in the United States. What's missing is a crucial part of the picture : the rank and file of journalism, and the conditions under which they produced and participated in the business off journalism. Newsworkers supplies this side of the story. Focusing on the period from the 1850s through the 1930s, the contributors show how issues of labor and class have been far more important in the formation of media institutions than previous accounts concede. These essays recover the history of ethnic and cultural diversity - including the contributions of women - that have enriched the process of communication.

Author : Denis McQuail
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761972433
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McQuail's Reader in Mass Communication Theory written by Denis McQuail and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a companion to McQuail's Mass Communication Theory, but can be used independently. It is a resource of statements drawn from communication studies, media sociology and cultural studies.

Author : George Pollard
Publisher : Brewer, Me. : Cay-Bel Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision Acceptance Among Radio Newsworkers written by George Pollard and published by Brewer, Me. : Cay-Bel Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine McKercher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newsworkers Unite written by Catherine McKercher and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last forty years, new technology and rapid concentration of ownership have caused fundamental changes in North American newspapers. Newsworkers' unions have struggled to protect their members and to reinvent themselves to keep up with the relentless pace of change in the workplace, and recent strikes such as that of Seattle newspaper workers highlight the ongoing challenges. This engaging and accessible book focuses on how the Newspaper Guild--the main union for reporters and editors--adopted a strategy of labor convergence, joining with other media workers in the large and diverse Communications Workers of America union. McKercher also looks at the nationalism of Canadian newsworkers who instead joined an all-Canadian union similar to CWA and explores a case study on an extreme form of labor convergence in Vancouver. She concludes that while labor convergence is a work in progress, it is a promising development for newsworkers and their unions, helping them adjust to change and perhaps expand into new areas of the communication sector.

Author : Mark Fishman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147730262X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing the News written by Mark Fishman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little argument that mass media news projects a particular point of view. The question is how that bias is formed. Most media critics look to the attitudes of reporters and editors, the covert news policy of a publisher, or the outside pressures of politicians and advertisers. Manufacturing the News takes a different tack. Mark Fishman’s research shows how the routine methods of gathering news, rather than any hidden manipulators, determine the ideological character of the product. News organizations cover the world mainly through “beats,” which tend to route reporters exclusively through governmental agencies and corporate bureaucracies in their search for news. Crime, for instance, is covered through the police and court bureaucracies; local politics through the meetings of the city council, county commissioners, and other official agencies. Reporters under daily deadlines come to depend upon these organizations for the predictable, steady flow of raw news material they provide. It is part of the function of such bureaucracies to transform complex happenings into procedurally defined “cases.” Thus the information they produce for newsworkers represents their own bureaucratic reality. Occurrences which are not part of some bureaucratic phase are simply ignored. Journalists participate in this system by publicizing bureaucratic reality as hard fact, while accounts from other sources are treated as unconfirmed reports which cannot be published without time-consuming investigation. Were journalists to employ different methods of news gathering, Fishman concludes, a different reality would emerge in the news—one that might challenge the legitimacy of prevailing political structures. But, under the traditional system, news reports will continue to support the interests of the status quo independently of the attitudes and intentions of reporters, editors, and news sources.

Author : Lisbeth Clausen
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press DK
ISBN 13 : 9788763001106
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global News Production written by Lisbeth Clausen and published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Events around the world are broadcast by giant media players such as CNN, BBC and NHK amongst others. This book explores how powerful political and economic agendas in the national media environment influence the production processes.

Author : Don Heider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135662150
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White News written by Don Heider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is TV news racist? If the purpose of local news is to cover individual communities and to present issues of interest and concern to local audiences, why are local newscasts so similar in markets around the country? These are the questions that motivated Heider's research, leading to the development of this book. Recognizing that local news is the outlet through which most people get their news, Heider ventured into the local television newsrooms in two moderate-size, culturally diverse U.S. markets to observe the news process. In this report, he uses his insider's perspective to examine why local television news coverage of people of color does not occur in more meaningful ways. Heider examines the perceptions of racism and ethnicity, and addresses such dichotomies as "white" news (content determined by white managers) being delivered by non-white news anchors, thus giving the appearance of "non-white" news. He also considers how coverage of minorities influences viewers' perceptions of their minority neighbors. Heider then sets forth a new theoretical concept--incognizant racism--as a way of explaining how news workers consistently ignore news in significant portions of the communities they cover. This contribution to the minorities and media discussion provides important insights into the newsroom decision-making process and the sociology and structure of newsrooms. It is required reading for all who are involved in news reporting, mass communication, media and minority studies, and cultural issues in today's society.

Author : Paschal Preston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134043503
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the News written by Paschal Preston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the News provides a cross-national perspective on key features of journalism and news-making cultures and the changing media landscape in contemporary Europe. . Focusing on the key trends, practices and issues in contemporary journalism and news cultures, Paschal Preston maps the major contours of change as well as the broader industrial, organizational, institutional and cultural factors shaping journalism practices over the past two decades. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on journalism trends and newsmaking practices within a single country, Making the News draws on unique, cross-national research examining current journalism practices and related newsmaking cultures in eleven West, Central and East European countries, including in-depth interviews with almost 100 senior journalists and subsequent workshop discussions with other interest groups Making the News links reviews and discussions of the existing literature to original research engaging with the views and experiences of journalists working at the ‘coal face’ of contemporary newsmaking practices, to provide an original study and useful student text.

Author : Kalyani Chadha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000535045
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newswork and Precarity written by Kalyani Chadha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry. In 14 original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work harder for less money, and few countries are proactive in alleviating the precarity of journalists. Newswork and Precarity is a valuable addition to an important still-emerging area in journalism studies that will be of interest to both professionals and scholars of journalism, media studies, sociology, and labor history.