The Idea of Journalism
Book chapter
Authors | Steel, J. |
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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 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9611v/the-idea-of-journalism
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