Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on the period from the 1850s through the 1930s, this text shows how labour and class have been more important in the formation of media institutions than previous accounts concede.
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen; without the rank and file - journalism history, media workers and problems of representation, Hanno Hardt; discursive strategies of exclusion - the ideological construction of newsworkers, Elizabeth (Elli) Lester; the emergence of the reported - mechanization and the devaluation of editorial workers, Marianne Salcetti; cultural discourse of journalists - the material conditions of newsroom labour, Bonnie Brennen; the site of newsroom labour - the division of editorial practices, William S. Solomon; words against images - positioning newswork in the age of photography, Barbie Zelizer; alternative visions - the intellectual heritage of nonconformist journalists in Canada, David R. Spencer; newsboys - the exploitation of "little merchants" by the newspaper industry, Jon Bekken.
