The Idea of Journalism
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Steel, J. 2009. The Idea of Journalism. in: Eadie, W. F. (ed.) 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook California SAGE Publishing.
| Authors | Steel, J. |
|---|---|
| Editors | Eadie, W. F. |
| Abstract | What is journalism in the early 21st century? At a very basic level, one could argue that journalism today is the application of a set of skills that provides current information about the world—news—to the public at large. Certainly, journalism is as much about news as it is about its public. Yet such a simplistic definition of what journalism might be misses out so much of the significance and complexity that pertains to journalism in our society today and historically. Journalism has a history; indeed, it has histories; that is to say, there is no single account of journalism that provides us with a definitive understanding of how what we now recognize as journalism has come about. |
| Keywords | journalism ; current information; society ; history ; development journalism; journalists |
| Year | 2009 |
| Book title | 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
| Place of publication | California |
| ISBN | 9781412950305 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412964005.n64 |
| Web address (URL) | https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/communication |
| Output status | Published |
| Publication dates | 03 Sep 2009 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 08 Apr 2022 |
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