Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review"In this brilliant and wide-ranging book, David Ryfe demonstrates how journalism is deeply shaped by its relations to other institutions of public life.
Journalism and the Public is an important contribution to the international comparative study of news."
Rodney Benson, New York University "A picture of the public and its relationship with journalism has held us captive. In this excellent book, David Ryfe sets us free. Writing with clarity and verve, he shows that while the relationship varies in response to pressures from state, market, and civil society, a connection between journalism and the public is everywhere at the heart of the profession and what it aims to accomplish."
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of OxfordTable of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction1
- The Tradition
- A New Approach
- Plan of the Book
- Chapter 1 Theory
- Publics
- Journalism
- Journalism and the Public
- Chapter 2 Emergence
- Early Cases
- The Development of the American Field
- The Field of French Journalism
- The Form of News
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Outside the West
- History
- Markets
- The Chinese Field of Journalism
- Investigative Journalism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 The Journalistic Imagination
- Normative Accounts
- Journalists Should Tell the Truth
- Journalists Should Build Community
- Journalists Should Foster Deliberative Conversation
- What Should Journalists Do?
- Chapter 5 Journalism and Change
- A Recap
- Mapping Change
- Time and Change
- Persistence
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 Moving Forward
- What We Know
- What We Do Not Know
- Responses
- Networked Journalism and Democracy
- References
