The American Journalism History Reader
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The American Journalism History Reader presents important primary texts—news articles and essays about journalism from all stages of the history of the American press—alongside key works of journalism history and criticism. The volume aims to place journalism history in its theoretical context, to familiarize the reader with essential works of, and about, journalism, and to chart the development of the field.
The reader moves chronologically through American journalism history from the eighteenth-century to the present, combining classic sources and contemporary insights. Each century's section begins with a critical introduction, which establishes the social and political environment in which the media developed to highlight the ideological issues behind the historical period.
ISBN
9780415801867
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
City
New York City
Disciplines
Communication | Journalism Studies
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: Historiography Section Introduction
1. American Journalism and Its Historical Treatment
2. The Problem of Journalism History
3. The Ossification of Journalism History: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
4.Theory and History
5. A Revolution in Historiography?
Section 2. Age of Public Enlightenment: The 18th Century Section Introduction
6. Apology for Printers
7. Journalism in the United States from 1690-1872
8. Printers and the American Revolution
9. The Colonial Journalist: Good Humour’d Unless Provok’d
10. The Federal Era III: Scissors, Paste, and Ink
11.The End of the Beginning
Section 3: Age of Universal Literacy: The 19th Century Section Introduction
12. Reflections on Journalism
13. The Immigrant Press and Assimilation
14. Front-page Girl
15. The Editorial Staff
16. Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph
17. Changes in News in the Nineteenth Century
18. Paper Prints for the Masses
19. American Political Parties and the Press
Section 4: Age of Information: The 20th Century. Introduction to Age of Information
20. Writing News and Telling Stories
21. The Reporter and the News
22. The Newspaperman
23. House of Lords
24. Newspaper Crusaders: A Neglected Story
25. The Disappearing Daily
26. Voices
27. The Beginnings
28. Democracy and the News
29. Dialectical Tensions in the American Media, Past and Future
30. Fact and Fiction
31. A Fighting Press