| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Should the personal become universal? -- 2. The results : an anecdotal companion to history -- 3. Content as commodity : giving readers what they want -- 4. Citizen journalism and chicken little -- 5. What's blogging got to do with it? -- 6. Humanizing the news after 9/11 -- 7. The old, the new, the good, the bad, and the long and the short of narrative -- 8. Diversity of thought shifts content -- 9. The therapeutic story flow model -- 10. Fifteen seconds of fame : a cultural reverence for story -- 11. Emergence journalism : where we go from here -- Appendix : Data from twenty newspapers measuring features, feature leads, and unofficial sources |
| Summary |
"Examines how newspapers have changed over the past few years, becoming story papers. Comparing 850 stories, story approaches, and unofficial sourcing in twenty American newspapers from 2001 and 2004, Weldon reveals a shift toward features over hard news, along with an increase in anecdotal or humanistic approaches to all stories"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Feature stories -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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American newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Front pages.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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American newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Front pages.
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Feature stories.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826266248 |
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082626624X |
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