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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Preface; How the Book Is Organized; Acknowledgments; List of Interviews Conducted with Journalists; Chapter 1 Journalism in the Current Era; How Journalists Dealt with the Rhetoric of Trump and Others during the 2016 Election Cycle; What Journalists Said after the 2016 Election; Hybridity; Why Examine Journalistic Discourse?; Journalists as Communities of Practice; Boundary Work and Journalists as Interpretive Communities, Professions, and Organizations; Comparing Interpretive Communities to Communities of Practice; Journalists as Communities of Practice |
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Examples of Journalistic Communities of PracticeViewing Journalists as Communities of Practice around Opinion and Commentary; Chapter 2 The Increase in Talk in News; Journalistic Models; Has Opinion in News Increased?; Opinion Journalism Is Increasing through Journalists' Social Media Use; Increase in Opinion and Commentary in Radio News; Why Has Opinion in News Increased?; Cable News Was a Factor in the Increase of Opinion in News; Talk Is Cheap. Financial Incentives to Moving to a Talk Format; Competition as a Reason for the Increase in Opinion and Commentary |
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Political and Social Changes Are also Factors in the Increase in Opinion and CommentaryCNN's (Jeff Zucker's) Strategy to "Diversify" Programming; MSNBC's 2015 Strategy Change to Return to Hard News; Journalists Starting Their Own Self-Branded Sites; Chapter 3 Journalists' Perspectives on Incivility and Opinion in Digital News Media; Definitions of Civility; Research about Civility, Politics, and Journalism; Method; Analysis; Theme 1. Concern, or Lack Thereof, about Uncivil Mediated Discourse through Digital News Media; Theme 2: The Causes of an Increase in Opinion and Incivility |
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Theme 1. Concern, or Lack Thereof, about Uncivil Mediated Discourse through Digital News MediaThe Concern about Civility in Media Discourse is not Limited to Online; Theme 3: Awareness of Academic Research about Opinion and Civility in News and Reader Comments; Theme 4: How Journalists Are Dealing with the Increase in Opinion and Incivility in Online Political News Discourse; Discussion; Chapter 4 Journalists' Perspectives on Opinion, Commentary, and Incivility in All Types of News; Reasons for the Increase in Incivility, Uncivil Tone of Political Discourse in Media |
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Does It Reflect What's Happened in Government and Politics? Or Is It the Other Way Around? Do Media Contribute to the Tone of Discourse?Is Opinion a Successful Business Strategy?; Differences in Success with Opinion between Conservative and Liberal Outlets; Differences in Opinion and Commentary According to Medium; Increases in Opinion and Commentary Are Positive or Neutral; Opinion and Commentary from Regular People/Bloggers/Citizen Journalists through Social Media Are More Important than What's Coming From, or Through the Filter of, Legacy/Big Media |
| Summary |
Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary. From News to Talk examines what journalists think about the movement toward often opinionated, sometimes uncivil, talk in news. It provides an important intervention in debates about the future of news by investigating what journalists themselves perceive as the forces affecting this movement, the effects of this shift on audiences and political culture, and how the movement from news to talk affects their roles and authority in society. Drawing on more than thirty interviews with journalists and other industry professionals and a decade of published journalistic materials, Kimberly Meltzer uncovers the technological, economic, cultural, and political forces affecting the movement toward opinion and commentary--or talk--in television, online, print, and radio news. From CNN's Brian Stelter, to Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo, the Washington Post's Paul Farhi, and many other journalists from CBS, USA Today, POLITICO, and HuffPost, the interviewees are key figures in journalism. Her analysis centers around several key case studies, including the increase in opinionated talking heads on television and the ushering in of a new era of talk and entertainment programs, the strategy by CNN to broaden its definition of news by adding non-news programs, and the bevy of star journalists starting their own self-branded sites. Kimberly Meltzer is Associate Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She is the author of TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition: How Journalists Adapt to Technology. -- Provided by database |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2019) |
| Subject |
Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States
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Journalists -- United States -- Attitudes
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Journalism -- Objectivity
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Journalists -- Attitudes
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438473505 |
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1438473508 |
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