Key Readings in Journalism

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.

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