Cultural Meanings of News: A Text-Reader / Edition 1

by Daniel A. Berkowitz

Overview

What is news? What does news tell us about the culture and the society that produces and consumes it? This book provides a fresh examination of news production from a cultural perspective, moving beyond what was once called "sociology of news" and toward the globally-broader, culturally-based concept of "journalism studies. "

Key Features

• Twenty-three original and contemporary articles—encompassing the intrinsic cultures of print, broadcast, and online media—are grouped in six thematically cohesive sets.
• The articles are presented chronologically to allow the reader to follow the exchange of ideas between authors over time.
• Berkowitz looks at news globally, helping the student look beyond his or her own cultural context to that of many other societies.
• A comprehensive framework helps to thoughtfully present this cultural study of news. Berkowitz opens and closes the text with a cultural perspective on news and hints on applying this perspective to emerging news situations; each section also contains an introduction that highlight connections between the articles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412967655
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/30/2010
Pages:	409
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: From Sociological Roots to Cultural Perspectives xi

Part I A Framework for Thinking About the Meanings of News 1

1 Understanding the Global Journalist: A Hierarchy-of-Influences Approach Stephen D. Reese 3

2 What Is Journalism? Professional Identity and Ideology of Journalists Reconsidered Mark Deuze 17

3 Deconstructing Journalism Culture: Toward a Universal Theory Thomas Hanitzsch 33

Part II Cultural Practice of Journalism 49

4 The Socially Responsible Existentialist: A Normative Emphasis for Journalists in a New Media Environment Jane B. Singer 53

5 Blasphemy as Sacred Rite/Right: “The Mohammed Cartoons Affair” and Maintenance of Journalist Ideology Dan Berkowitz Lyombe Eko 67

6 The Journalist Gut Feeling: Journalistic Doxa, News Habitus, and Orthodox News Values Ida Schultz 83

7 Media Ritual in Catastrophic Time: The Populist Turn in Television Coverage of Hurricane Katrina Frank Durham 99

Part III Making Meaning in the Journalistic Interpretive Community 115

8 War Journalism and the “KIA Journalist”: The Cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly Matt Carlson 119

9 The Importance of Ritual in Crisis Journalism Kristina Riegert Eva-Karin Olsson 137

10 “Someone's Gotta Be in Control Here”: The Institutionalization of Online News and the Creation of a Shared Journalistic Authority Sue Robinson 151

11 Broader and Deeper: A Study of Newsroom Culture in a Time of Change David M. Ryfe 165

Part IV Repairing the Journalistic Paradigm 179

12 The Princess and the Paparazzi: Blame, Responsibility, and the Media's Role in the Death of Diana Elizabeth Blanks Hindman 183

13 “These Crowded Circumstances”: When Pack Journalists Bash Pack Journalism Russell Frank 201

14 Israeli Image Repair: Recasting the Deviant Actor to Retell the Story Robert L. Handley 213

15 A Paradigm in Process: What the Scapegoating of Vusi Mona Signalled About South African Journalism Guy Berger 225

Part V News Narratives as Cultural Text 241

16 Why Peace Journalism Isn't News Liz Fawcett 245

17 “Lost Boys” and the Promised Land: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Sudanese Refugees Melinda B. Robins 257

18 Crafting Cultural Resonance: Imaginative Power in Everyday Journalism James S. Ettema 271

19 Medea in the Media: Narrative and Myth in the Newspaper Coverage of Women Who Kill Their Children Barbara Barnett 285

Part VI News as Collective Memory 301

20 Reporting Through the Lens of the Past: From Challenger to Columbia Jill A. Edy Miglena Daradanova 305

21 Memory in Journalism and the Memory of Journalism: Israeli Journalists and the Constructed Legacy of Haolam Hazeh Oren Meyers 321

22 Making Memories Matter: Journalistic Authority and the Memorializing Discourse Around Mary McGrory and David Brinkley Matt Carlson 337

23 Memory Studies: “We Were All There”: Remembering America in the Anniversary Coverage of Hurricane Katrina Sue Robinson 351

Epilogue: Reflecting on Cultural Meanings of News 367

Author Index 373

Subject Index 385

About the Editor 409