Newsworkers
Toward a History of the Rank and File
Will be published approx. on 23. October 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8166-2707-3 (ISBN)
Description
The first examination of the role of the laborer in media history.
What most of us know about media history begins and ends with Citizen Kane. The exploits of media moguls and visionary business leaders-these are the tales that fill media histories in the United States. What's missing is a crucial part of the picture: the rank and file of journalism, and the conditions under which they produced and participated in the business of journalism. Newsworkers supplies this side of the story.
Focusing on the period from the 1850s through the 1930s, the contributors show how issues of labor and class have been far more important in the formation of media institutions than previous accounts concede. These essays recover the history of ethnic and cultural diversity-including the contributions of women-that have enriched the process of communication.
Contributors: Jon Bekken; Elizabeth (Elli) Lester, U of Georgia; Marianne Salcetti, John Carroll U; William S. Solomon, Rutgers U; David R. Spencer, U of Western Ontario; Barbie Zelizer, Temple U.
Hanno Hardt is John F. Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Bonnie Brennen is assistant professor of communication at SUNY, Geneseo.
What most of us know about media history begins and ends with Citizen Kane. The exploits of media moguls and visionary business leaders-these are the tales that fill media histories in the United States. What's missing is a crucial part of the picture: the rank and file of journalism, and the conditions under which they produced and participated in the business of journalism. Newsworkers supplies this side of the story.
Focusing on the period from the 1850s through the 1930s, the contributors show how issues of labor and class have been far more important in the formation of media institutions than previous accounts concede. These essays recover the history of ethnic and cultural diversity-including the contributions of women-that have enriched the process of communication.
Contributors: Jon Bekken; Elizabeth (Elli) Lester, U of Georgia; Marianne Salcetti, John Carroll U; William S. Solomon, Rutgers U; David R. Spencer, U of Western Ontario; Barbie Zelizer, Temple U.
Hanno Hardt is John F. Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Bonnie Brennen is assistant professor of communication at SUNY, Geneseo.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2707-3 (9780816627073)
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Persons
Hanno Hardt is John F. Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Bonnie Brennen is assistant professor of communication at SUNY, Geneseo.
Content
Introduction, Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen; without the rank and file - journalism history, media workers and problems of representation, Hanno Hardt; discursive strategies of exclusion - the ideological construction of newsworkers, Elizabeth (Elli) Lester; the emergence of the reported - mechanization and the devaluation of editorial workers, Marianne Salcetti; cultural discourse of journalists - the material conditions of newsroom labour, Bonnie Brennen; the site of newsroom labour - the division of editorial practices, William S. Solomon; words against images - positioning newswork in the age of photography, Barbie Zelizer; alternative visions - the intellectual heritage of nonconformist journalists in Canada, David R. Spencer; newsboys - the exploitation of "little merchants" by the newspaper industry, Jon Bekken.