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

About the author

Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work on journalism, culture, memory and images, particularly in times of crisis.

Zelizer is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Europaea Academia. She is also a founding co-editor of the academic journal Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism

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.