Table of Contents
Introduction: What We Should Know
Section I: The Development of Journalism
Introduction
Discovering the News, Michael Schudson
A Place in the News, Kay Mills
Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph, James W.
Carey
The African American Newspaper, Pat Washburn
Comparative Media History, Jane Chapman
Free for All: The Internet’s Transformation of Journalism,
Elliot King
Section II: Doing Journalism
Introduction
Deciding What’s News, Herbert Gans
The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn
The Race Beat, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
The First Casualty, M. Phillip Knightley
All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
The Girls in the Balcony, Nan Robertson
Section III: Biography
Introduction
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power, James McGrath
Morris
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Lincoln Steffens
Margaret Bourke White: A Biography, Vicki Goldberg
Murrow: His Life and Times, A.M.Sperber
Breaking Barriers, Carl Rowan
Personal History, Katherine Graham
Section IV: Classic Reporting
Introduction
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, Ida
Wells-Barnett
A History of Standard Oil Company, Ida Tarbell
Ernie’s War, David Nichols
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse
Section V: Journalism and Society
Introduction
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann
The Brass Check, Upton Sinclair
A Free and Responsible Press: The Hutchins Committee Response,
Robert D. Leigh
The Press, A.J. Liebling
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
On Television and Journalism, Pierre Bourdieu
About the Author
Elliot King is Professor and Chair in the Communication Department
at Loyola University Maryland. Jane Chapman is Professor of
Communications in the School of Journalism at Lincoln University,
and is a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge.
Reviews
"Key Readings in Journalism truly constitutes a greatest hits in
the field of journalism studies. All the classics, past and
present, are here. This book belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who
thinks about or studies the news. It is ideal for classroom use."
—Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Key Readings in Journalism's selections cumulatively answer the
important questions of why journalism is necessary and important,
why it must be of the highest possible quality, and what the
dangers may be when it isn't. Its selections will inspire scholars
at all levels to want to read more of the excerpted works, and to
seriously think about what journalism's other key readings might
be."—Dane S. Claussen, Editor, Journalism & Mass Communication
Educator
