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What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism's leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalism's complicated contours, prompting readers to rethink both how the news works and why it matters. Zelizer tackles longstanding givens in journalism's practice and study, offering alternative cues for assessing its contemporary environment. Highlighting journalism's intersection with interpretation, culture, emotion, contingency, collective memory, crisis and visuality, Zelizer brings new meaning to its engagement with events like the global refugee crisis, rise of Islamic State, ascent of digital media and twenty-first-century combat. Imagining what journalism could be involves stretching beyond the already-known. Zelizer enumerates journalism's considerable current challenges while suggesting bold and creative ways of engaging with them. This book powerfully demonstrates how and why journalism remains of paramount importance.Product Identifiers
PublisherPolity Press
ISBN-139781509507870
eBay Product ID (ePID)229747195
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameWhat Journalism Could Be
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBusiness
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
AuthorBarbie Zelizer
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Weight484 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorBarbie Zelizer