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Journalism
Why It Matters
Michael Schudson (Author)
9781509538546, Polity Press
Hardback, published 31 January 2020
120 pages
19.3 x 13 x 1.8 cm, 0.227 kg
“Michael Schudson has written a thoughtful, comprehensive, balanced, eloquent, and passionate book about the worth of journalism in present times. A must-read.” “This book is vintage Schudson. A concise, matter-of-fact recitation of why we should care about journalism, it will top syllabi everywhere in explaining journalism’s singular importance and in nurturing its future survival.”
Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern University
Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania
Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters. It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people daily in the complex and changing worlds in which they live. It matters because it offers a fact-centered, documented approach to pertinent public issues. It matters because it keeps watch on the powerful, especially those in government, and can press upon them unpleasant truths to which they must respond. Corruption is stemmed, unwise initiatives stopped, public danger averted because of what journalists do. This book challenges journalists to think hard about what they really do. It challenges skeptical news audiences to be mindful not only of media bias but also of their own biases and how these can distort their perception. And it holds out hope that journalism will be for years to come a path for ambitious, curious young people who love words or pictures or numbers and want to use them to improve the public conversation in familiar ways or in ways yet to be imagined.
Introduction
2. What Kind of Journalism Matters Most
3. Reported, Compelling, and Assertive
4. The Problem of Media Bias
5. Evidence That Journalism Matters (Or Doesn’t)
6. Why Technology Is Not the Whole Story
7. Journalism’s Four Non-Revolutions
8. Is There a Future for Journalism?
Further Reading
Notes
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
