Good News, Bad News

Journalism Ethics And The Public Interest

Jeremy Iggers (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31600-6 (ISBN)

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Good News, Bad News examines the role that journalism ethics play in shaping the direction and priorities of the press. The focus will primarily be on newspapers because it is in newspapers that the battle for American journalism's soul is still being fought.

Public dissatisfaction with the news media frequently gives rise to calls for journalists to live up to the ethical standards of their profession. But what if the fault lies in part with the standards themselves?Jeremy Iggers argues that journalism's institutionalized conversation about ethics largely evades the most important issues regarding the

Jeremy Iggers is a staff writer at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. Currently the Star Tribune's restaurant critic, he has also written an ethics column and created several public journalism projects for the newspaper. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Minnesota and has written extensively on food issues, ethics, and journalism. His last book, Garden of Eating, won the 1996 Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction.

Introduction -- 1 How Journalists Talk About Ethics -- 2 Talking in Code(s): The Foundations of Journalism Ethics -- 3 Contemporary Ethical Concepts in Historical Context -- 4 Journalism Since Cooke: The Corporate Cultural Revolution -- 5 Objectivity's Legacy -- 6 The Myth of Neutrality and the Ideology of Information -- 7 Toward a Pragmatist Ethical Theory for Journalism -- 8 Toward a Public Journalism

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-31600-5 / 0367316005
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31600-6 / 9780367316006
Zustand	Neuware