The American Journalism Handbook - Concepts, Issues, and Skills

by Rodrigo Zamith

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This book is designed to help us understand the many changes to U.S. journalism and imagine new futures for it – futures in which it can serve as an even more useful tool for promoting a well-functioning society. But, before we can imagine new futures, we must take a step back and examine the institution of U.S. journalism through a critical and in-depth lens.

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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Subjects
Social Sciences, Communication
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Introduction
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Dedication
  9. 1: Conceptual Foundations
  10. 1.1: News
  11. 1.2: Journalism
  12. 1.3: Social Actors
  13. 1.4: Technological Actants
  14. 1.5: Audiences
  15. 1.6: Journalistic Activities
  16. 2: Media Effects
  17. 2.1: Media Dependency Theory
  18. 2.2: Framing Theory
  19. 2.3: Agenda Setting Theory
  20. 2.4: Priming Theory
  21. 2.5: News Avoidance and Fatigue
  22. 3: Influences on Journalistic Media
  23. 3.1: Hierarchy of Influences Model
  24. 3.2: U.S. Journalistic Culture
  25. 3.3: News Values
  26. 3.4: Truth, Bias, and Neutrality
  27. 3.5: Gender and Racial Gaps
  28. 3.6: Partisan and Geographic Biases
  29. 4: Journalism Economics
  30. 4.1: Commodification of News
  31. 4.2: Audience Measurement and Bundling
  32. 4.3: Third-Party Platforms
  33. 4.4: Non-Profit Journalism
  34. 4.5: State-Supported Journalism
  35. 5: Journalistic Audiences
  36. 5.1: Audience Fragmentation
  37. 5.2: User-Generated Content
  38. 5.3: Crowdsourcing and Ambient Journalism
  39. 5.4: Violence Against Journalists
  40. 6: History of U.S. Journalism
  41. 6.1: Early U.S. Journalism
  42. 6.2: Journalism in the 19th Century
  43. 6.3: Journalism in the Early 20th Century
  44. 6.4: Journalism After the Early 20th Century
  45. 7: Journalism Law and Ethics
  46. 7.1: The First Amendment
  47. 7.2: Access, Anonymity, and Privacy
  48. 7.3: Censorship, Copyright, and Incitement
  49. 7.4: Libel
  50. 7.5: Professional Codes of Ethics
  51. 8: Preparing a News Story
  52. 8.1: Types of Journalism
  53. 8.2: Opinion-Based Journalism
  54. 8.3: Story Ideas
  55. 8.4: Misinformation and Disinformation
  56. 9: Sourcing and Verifying Information
  57. 9.1: News Sources
  58. 9.2: Identifying Appropriate Sources
  59. 9.3: Contacting Sources and Arranging Interviews
  60. 9.4: Generating Good Interview Questions
  61. 9.5: Conducting Interviews
  62. 9.6: Verifying Information
  63. 10: Creating Journalistic Content
  64. 10.1: Leads and Nut Grafs
  65. 10.2: Story Structures
  66. 10.3: Quotes and Attribution
  67. 10.4: Integrating Quantitative Information
  68. 10.5: Solutions Journalism
  69. 11: Future of Journalism
  70. 11.1: Social Media and News Production
  71. 11.2: Social Media and News Distribution
  72. 11.3: Computational Journalism
  73. 11.4: Artificial Intelligence and Automation
  74. Back Matter
  75. Index
  76. Glossary
  77. Copyright Notice
  78. Detailed Licensing
  79. Detailed Licensing