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Journalism : the democratic craft / edited by G. Stuart Adam.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: xix, 393 pISBN:
  • 9780195182064 (alk. paper)
  • 0195182065 (alk. paper)
  • 0195182073 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4 22
LOC classification:
  • PN4724 .J68 2005
Contents:
Preface : the why and how of this book -- Introduction : reflections on journalism and the architecture of democracy -- Pt. I. Authorship and craft -- 1. Why I write -- 2. On being a writer -- 3. Why I write -- 4. In good faith -- 5. Maya Angelou -- 6. The reason for stories -- Pt. II. Journalism's essential elements -- 7. The nature of news -- 8. From politics to human interest -- 9. What's the news? -- 10. From news gathering to news making : a flood of pseudo-events -- 11. What's wrong with news? : it isn't new enough -- 12. News, truth, and a conclusion -- 13. Eyewitness to history -- 14. On the epistemology of investigative journalism -- 15. Tuesday was a good D-Day for Life -- 16. Getting the story in Vietnam -- 17. The legend on the license -- 18. How I broke the Mylai 4 story -- 19. Journalism of verification -- 20. The Boston hoax : she fought it, he bought it -- 21. The scientific way -- 22. In Plato's cave -- 23. The line between fact and fiction -- 24. News as a form of knowledge -- 25. Politics and the English language -- 26. The politics of the plain style -- 27. Reports, inferences, judgments -- 28. The narrative tradition -- 29. From The new journalism -- 30. The requirements -- 31. The dark continent of American journalism -- 32. The conceptual scoop -- 33. Notes towards a definition of journalism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : the why and how of this book -- Introduction : reflections on journalism and the architecture of democracy -- Pt. I. Authorship and craft -- 1. Why I write -- 2. On being a writer -- 3. Why I write -- 4. In good faith -- 5. Maya Angelou -- 6. The reason for stories -- Pt. II. Journalism's essential elements -- 7. The nature of news -- 8. From politics to human interest -- 9. What's the news? -- 10. From news gathering to news making : a flood of pseudo-events -- 11. What's wrong with news? : it isn't new enough -- 12. News, truth, and a conclusion -- 13. Eyewitness to history -- 14. On the epistemology of investigative journalism -- 15. Tuesday was a good D-Day for Life -- 16. Getting the story in Vietnam -- 17. The legend on the license -- 18. How I broke the Mylai 4 story -- 19. Journalism of verification -- 20. The Boston hoax : she fought it, he bought it -- 21. The scientific way -- 22. In Plato's cave -- 23. The line between fact and fiction -- 24. News as a form of knowledge -- 25. Politics and the English language -- 26. The politics of the plain style -- 27. Reports, inferences, judgments -- 28. The narrative tradition -- 29. From The new journalism -- 30. The requirements -- 31. The dark continent of American journalism -- 32. The conceptual scoop -- 33. Notes towards a definition of journalism.

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