Table of Contents

PART I: Introduction

1 Complexity, Uncertainty and Journalistic Change

2 Reshaping the Journalistic Culture

PART II: Ideology, Culture and Institutions

3 Journalism and Democracy

4 Postmodernism, Uncertainty and Journalism

5 The Call and Challenge for Diversity

6 Communities, Cultural Identity and the News

7 Changes in Community Power Structures

8 News: Once and Future Institution?

PART III: Markets, Organization and Profession

9 Market Journalism

10 The Fragmenting Mass Media Marketplace

11 Changing Perceptions of Organizations

12 Journalism and Digital Technologies

13 ‘So many stories, so little time’: The changing professional environment

14 Where Professionalism Begins

Afterword: Connective Journalism

About the Author

Wilson Lowrey is an associate professor in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama. Lowrey's research focuses on the sociology of news work, and has been published in a number of journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Political Communication, Journalism, Journalism Studies and Journal of Media Economics. Peter J. Gade is a Gaylord Family Professor and Journalism Area Head in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He is a co-author of Twilight of Press Freedom: The Rise of People's Journalism (2001). He is a former newspaper reporter and mid-level manager and has worked as an organizational consultant for newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.