Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy

by Barbie Zelizer

Taking Journalism News and the Academy argues that scholars have remained too entrenched within their own disciplinary areas resulting in isolated bodies of scholarship. This is the first book to critically survey journalism scholarship in one volume and organize it by disparate fields. The book reviews existing journalism research in such diverse fields as sociology, history, language studies, political science, and cultural analysis and dissects the most prevalent and understated research in each discipline.  

296 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Deryck Hodge · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid book. I was curious about the academic question of defining journalism, and this book suited that need.