Social meanings of news : a text-reader / [edited by] Dan Berkowitz.
"What is news? Why does news turn out like it does? Social Meanings of News takes on these deceptively simple questions through an essential collection of classic and contemporary studies by leaders in the field of mass communication. Rather than applying a journalist's viewpoint to answer...
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Overview: Why a "Social Meanings of News" Perspective?
- A Framework for Thinking About News
- 1. The Sociology of News Production
- 2. Has Communication Explained Journalism?
- 3. Professional Mass Communicators
- Selecting News: The Individual Gatekeeper
- 4. A New Gatekeeping Model
- 5. The "Gate Keeper": A Case Study in the Selection of News
- 6. Ms. Gates Takes Over: An Updated Version of a 1949 Case Study
- 7. Refining the Gatekeeping Metaphor for Local Television News
- 8. Structure and Constraints on Community Newspaper Gatekeepers
- Organizing News: News as a Workplace Product
- 9. Social Control in the Newsroom: A Functional Analysis
- 10. News Organizations: Conflict as a Crafted Cultural Norm
- 11. News Reporting and Professionalism: Some Constraints on the Reporting of the News
- 12. Science Writers at Work
- Professionalizing News: News as Journalists' Norms and Routines
- 13. Making News by Doing Work: Routinizing the Unexpected
- 14. News as Purposive Behaviour: On the Strategic Use of Routine Events, Accidents and Scandals
- 15. News and Nonevents: Making the Visible Invisible
- 16. Routines and the Making of Oppositional News
- Selling News: News as Economic Entity
- 17. Boundaries of Journalistic Autonomy
- 18. The News Factory
- 19. The First Stage of News Production: Learning What's Happening
- 20. The Competitive Ethos in Television Newswork
- Telling News: News as Familiar Story
- 21. Mythic Elements in Television News
- 22. Myth, Chronicle and Story: Exploring the Narrative Qualities of News
- 23. When Technology Fails: The Drama of Airline Crashes in Network Television News
- 24. Non-Routine News and Newswork: Exploring a What-a-Story
- 25. The Rape of Mike Tyson: Race, the Press and Symbolic Types
- Ideology and News: News as Social Power
- 26. Journalists as Interpretive Communities
- 27. The News Paradigm and the Ideology of Objectivity: A Socialist at the Wall Street Journal
- 28. News of Battering
- 29. Press Rites and Race Relations: A Study of Mass-Mediated Ritual
- 30. Science, Technology and Risk Coverage of a Community Conflict
- Epilogue: Applying the Tools to Study News
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- About the Editor
- List of Authors.