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The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts
by Andrew E StonerAs the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country's most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream society understand not just the rising tide of HIV/AIDS but gay culture and liberation.In-depth and dramatic, Andrew E. Stoner's biography follows the remarkable life of the brash, pioneering journalist. Shilts's reporting on AIDS in San Francisco broke barriers even as other gay writers and activists ridiculed his overtures to the mainstream and labeled him a traitor to the movement, charges the combative Shilts forcefully answered. Behind the scenes, Shilts overcame career-threatening struggles with alcohol and substance abuse to achieve the notoriety he had always sought, while the HIV infection he had purposely kept hidden began to take his life.Filled with new insights and fascinating detail, The Journalist of Castro Street reveals the historic work and passionate humanity of the legendary investigative reporter and author.
Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
by Anna Gr Ingrid Fadnes Roy KrThis book explores the relationship between the safety of journalists and self-censorship practices around the world, including local case studies and regional and international perspectives. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe, Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship provides new and updated insights into patterns of self-censorship and free speech, focusing on a variety of factors that affect these issues, including surveillance, legislation, threats, violent conflict, gender-related stereotypes, digitisation and social media. The contributions examine topics such as trauma, risk and self-censorship among journalists in different regions of the world, including Central America, Estonia, Turkey, Uganda and Pakistan. The book also provides conceptual clarity to the notion of journalist self-censorship, and explores the question of how self-censorship may be studied empirically.Combining both theoretical and practical knowledge, this collection serves as a much-needed resource for any academic, student of journalism, practicing journalist, or NGO working on issues of journalism, safety, free speech and censorship.
Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era
by Matt CarlsonWhen we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a relationship arising in the connections between those laying claim to being an authority and those who assent to it. Matt Carlson examines the practices journalists use to legitimate their work: professional orientation, development of specific news forms, and the personal narratives they circulate to support a privileged social place. He then considers journalists' relationships with the audiences, sources, technologies, and critics that shape journalistic authority in the contemporary media environment. Carlson argues that journalistic authority is always the product of complex and variable relationships. Journalistic Authority weaves together journalists’ relationships with their audiences, sources, technologies, and critics to present a new model for understanding journalism while advocating for practices we need in an age of fake news and shifting norms.
Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media
by Dale JacquetteJournalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media examines the moral rights and responsibilities of journalists to provide what Dale Jacquette calls “truth telling in the public interest.” With 31 case studies from contemporary journalistic practice, the book demonstrates the immediate practical implications of ethics for working journalists as well as for those who read or watch the news. This case-study approach is paired with a theoretical grounding, and issues include freedom of the press, censorship and withholding sensitive information for the greater public good, protection of confidential sources, journalistic respect for privacy, objectivity, perspective and bias, and editorial license and its obligations. This is a book for anyone who now works in journalism, or is considering a career as a journalist. It is also important groundwork for everyone who follows the day's events in newspapers, radio, television, or on the internet.
The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter
by Richard Keeble Sharon WheelerFocusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and celebrate the literary qualities of journalism as a genre. Key features include: an international focus taking in writers from the UK, the USA and France essays featuring a range of extremely popular writers (such as Dickens, Orwell, Angela Carter, Truman Capote) and approaches them from distinctly original angles. Each chapter begins with a concise biography to help contextualise the the journalist in question and includes references and suggested further reading for students. Any student or teacher of journalism or media studies will want to add this book to their reading list.
Journalistic Metamorphosis: Media Transformation in the Digital Age (Studies in Big Data #70)
by Jorge Vázquez-Herrero Sabela Direito-Rebollal Alba Silva-Rodríguez Xosé López-GarcíaThis book aims to reflect how journalism has changed in recent years through different perspectives concerning the impact of technology, the reconfiguration of the media ecosystem, the transformation of business models, production and profession, as well as the influence of digital storytelling, mobile devices and participation within the context of glocal information.Journalism innovation implies modifications in techniques, technologies, processes, languages, formats and devices intended to enhance the production and consumption of the journalistic information.This book becomes an interesting resource for researchers and professionals working in news media to identify the best practices and discover new types of information flows in a rapidly changing news media landscape.
Journalistic Practice: Why science must tell stories (essentials)
by Martin W. AnglerScience needs to tell good stories to combat fake news and to communicate complex issues. To do this, there are proven techniques, structures, recurring patterns, and elements that no good story should be without. This essential shows why we are wired to respond to stories, how they affect our brains, and what techniques we can use to convey them to every kind of audience, from funders to toddlers.
Journalistic Practice: How Media can Implement the Topic of Migration for Young People (essentials)
by Gabriele HooffackerAdolescents want media that report in an understandable way and show backgrounds and possible solutions. This book shows how the concept of constructive journalism helps with this and how it can be used in journalism training. This springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Journalistische Praxis: Konstruktiver Journalismus by Gabriele Hooffacker, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Journalistic Practices in Restrictive Contexts: A Sociological Approach to the Case of Iran (Routledge Research in Journalism)
by Banafsheh RanjiBased on fieldwork conducted in Iran, this book discusses how it is possible for journalism to exist and function in a restrictive context. The book brings together a range of structural (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) processes to analyze journalistic practice in a politically restrictive setting, a context thus far dominated by structural explanations. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s work as a starting point, Banafsheh Ranji develops an explanatory framework for how Iranian journalists navigate the daily 'minefield' of their professional environment. The analysis sheds light on the everyday reality of journalism in Iran, addressing factors that hinder journalists’ work while also showing how journalists use a set of double game strategies to simultaneously circumvent constraints and avoid retaliation. Moving beyond notions of censorship and repression that accompany discussions of journalism in such settings, the book instead focuses on how we may think of critical journalism, professionalism, and journalistic power, agency, and autonomy in restrictive contexts. Offering powerful insights into the realities of journalism in a tightly controlled environment, this book will be a key resource for scholars and students of journalism, media and communication studies, political science, sociology, Iranian studies, and Middle East studies.
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods (Routledge Research in Journalism)
by Claudia Mellado Lea Hellmueller Wolfgang DonsbachThis volume lays out the theoretical and methodological framework to introduce the concept of journalistic role performance, defined as the outcome of concrete newsroom decisions and the style of news reporting when considering different constraints that influence the news product. By connecting role conception to role performance, this book addresses how journalistic ideals manifest in practice. The authors of this book analyze the disconnection between journalists’ understanding of their role and their actual professional performance in a period of high uncertainty and excitement about the future of journalism due the changes the Internet and new technologies have brought to the profession.
Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills, Honing the Craft
by Robert KnightAimed at those pursuing careers in creating public prose, this is the definitive handbook for aspiring journalists. Offering budding writers suggestions on how to improve their skills--even when faced with a tight deadline--this guide also reviews many elements essential to the occupation such as utilizing strong nouns and verbs, paring down adjectives and adverbs, describing with concrete detail, and avoiding clichés and the passive voice. Going beyond a standard presentation of information, this reference encourages students to put its methods into practice, making each and every word count and maintaining the appropriate energy level in their content. With expert analyses of real-world articles, this book also provides advice on avoiding poor sentence structure that can kill reader interest and includes perspectives on diversity sensitivity. Accessible, humorous, and engaging, this revised edition offers a practical approach for those seeking to improve their communication skills.
Journalistische Gatekeeper in den Sozialen Medien: Eine empirische Analyse der Nachrichtenverbreitung durch Journalist*innen anhand von Ereignis- und Meldungsmerkmalen
by Lars-Ole WehdenDie Rezeption vielfältiger Nachrichten führt zu normativ wünschenswerten Effekten. Zuletzt haben sich die Sozialen Medien für manche als wichtigste Nachrichtenquelle etabliert. Kann das dort präsentierte Nachrichtenangebot Ansprüche an Vielfalt genauso einlösen, wie andere Zugangswege? Und welche Kriterien beeinflussen die Nachrichtenselektion von Gatekeepern in den Sozialen Medien? Bisher wurden diese Fragen nur unzureichend untersucht. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist daher die Identifikation von Artikel- und Meldungsmerkmalen, die die journalistische Verbreitung von Nachrichten in den Sozialen Medien befördern. Die Vielfalt des Nachrichtenangebots in den Sozialen Medien wird zudem ihrem Äquivalent auf journalistischen Webseiten gegenübergestellt. Dazu wird eine qualitative Expertenbefragung mit einem inhaltsanalytischen Input-Output-Vergleich journalistischer Artikel verknüpft. Die Ergebnisse attestieren dem in den Sozialen Medien journalistisch präsentierten Nachrichtenangebot eine nur geringfügig verminderte Vielfalt. Nachrichtenfaktoren üben an diesem Schleusentor hingegen nur einen geringen zusätzlichen Einfluss aus. Stattdessen sind auch bisher vernachlässigte formale Aspekte bedeutsam.
Journalistische Praxis: Warum Wissenschaft Geschichten erzählen muss (essentials)
by Martin W. AnglerWissenschaft muss gute Geschichten erzählen, um Fake News zu bekämpfen und um komplexe Themen zu vermitteln. Dazu gibt es erprobte Techniken, Strukturen, wiederkehrende Muster und Elemente, die in keiner guten Geschichte fehlen dürfen. Dieses essential zeigt, wieso wir so verdrahtet sind, auf Geschichten zu reagieren, wie sie auf unser Gehirn wirken und welche Techniken wir einsetzen können, um sie an jede Art von Publikum zu vermitteln, vom Geldgeber bis zum Kleinkind.
Journalistische Praxis: Eine praktische Anleitung (essentials)
by Martin W. AnglerKein Medium kann Wissenschaft so schnell der Öffentlichkeit vermitteln wie das Web. Blogs spielen dabei eine maßgebliche Rolle, weil sie in puncto Substanz genau zwischen hochkomplexen Papers und sehr vereinfachten Social Media-Beiträgen liegen. Dieses Buch zeigt, wieso Wissenschaftler diese Art des Publizierens in ihre Forschungsarbeit integrieren sollten. Es gibt praktische Ratschläge darüber, wie Blogs geplant werden müssen, wie sich Blogposts strukturieren lassen, welche geschriebenen Formate am effektivsten zur Wissenschaftskommunikation funktionieren und wie die Beiträge so geplant und publiziert werden können, dass sie ihr Publikum erreichen.
Journalistische Praxis: Ein Handbuch Für Ausbildung Und Praxis (essentials)
by Lutz FrühbrodtErzählen, erklären, einordnen: Lutz Frühbrodt zeigt, wie moderner Wirtschaftsjournalismus funktioniert. Der Band startet mit den jüngeren Umwälzungen innerhalb des Ressorts, dekliniert die typischen Anlässe und Textformate durch und endet mit einem Plädoyer für eine „Nachhaltigkeits-Perspektive“ in der Unternehmensberichterstattung.
Journalistische Praxis: Wie Medien das Thema Migration für Jugendliche umsetzen können (essentials)
by Gabriele HooffackerHeranwachsende wünschen sich Medien, die verständlich berichten, Hintergründe und Lösungsmöglichkeiten aufzeigen. Wie das Konzept des konstruktiven Journalismus dabei hilft und wie es in der Journalismusausbildung eingesetzt werden kann, zeigt dieses Buch.
Journalistische Praxis: Automatisierte Kommunikation im Journalismus und in der Public Relation (essentials)
by Markus Kaiser Aline-Florence Buttkereit Johanna HagenauerChatbots werden im Journalismus und in der Unternehmenskommunikation immer häufiger eingesetzt, um mit den Lesern bzw. Kunden auf der Website, in Apps oder in Social-Media-Kanälen zu kommunizieren. In diesem essential wird aufgezeigt, wann sich der Einsatz von Chatbots in der digitalen Kommunikation eignet und wie Chatbots konzipiert und entwickelt werden. Und worauf zu achten ist, dass die Leser bzw. Kunden Chatbots statt menschlicher Mitarbeiter akzeptieren und sich nicht frustriert abwenden. Außerdem wird ein Ausblick gegeben, wie sich Chatbots durch Machine Learning bzw. Künstliche Intelligenz weiterentwickeln könnten.
Journalistische Praxis: Neu interpretierte Regeln für einen besseren digitalen Qualitätsjournalismus (essentials)
by Alexander MarinosDer Online-Journalismus hat dem Nachrichtenschreiben neues Leben eingehaucht. Mobile User verlangen nach schneller und präziser Information, die Platz auf einem kleinen Bildschirm findet. Erfolgreiche Content-Produzenten erinnern sich darum an die „umgekehrte Pyramide“, an Nachrichtenfaktoren und W-Fragen. Sie wissen, wann man Präsens, Perfekt und Imperfekt einsetzt und wie das mit den Konjunktiven funktioniert. Und natürlich haben Sie eine Ahnung davon, wie ein Online-Teaser verfasst werden muss, um Reichweite zu erzeugen.Modernes Nachrichtenschreiben bedeutet aber nicht nur, die um digitale Aspekte erweiterten klassischen Regeln beherrschen und anwenden zu können. Es geht darum, diese Regeln weiterzuentwickeln – und auch einmal lustvoll über den Haufen zu werfen. Mut zu mehr Lebendigkeit und zum professionellen Anderssein wird zum Qualitätsmerkmal. So machen Nachrichten wieder Spaß: beim Schreiben und beim Lesen.
Journalistische Praxis: Verifikation und Fact Checking (essentials)
by Peter WelcheringFür die Recherche im Netz und für die Faktenprüfung stehen jedem Journalisten professionelle Werkzeuge zur Verfügung. Oft sind die als Open-Source-Software oder als kostenlose Web-Angebote nutzbar. Auch das erforderliche Know-How, um mit diesen Werkzeugen arbeiten zu können, ist leicht erlernbar. Wie Journalisten sich digitale Quellen erschließen, sie verifizieren oder falsifizieren, wie sie gezielt auf Social-Media-Plattformen, im sogenannten „Darknet“ oder „Deep Web“ sowie mit (Spezial-) Suchmaschinen recherchieren; Videos, Fotos und andere Dateien analysieren, das wird in diesem Buch gezeigt.
Journalistische Praxis: Texten zu jedem Thema (essentials)
by Gary HuckDieses Buch ist ein auf das Wesentliche reduziertes Einstiegswerk für professionelles Schreiben. Sie erhalten Grundwissen darüber, wie Sie ein Thema für Ihren Text finden, wie Sie dieses Thema in einer Recherche vertiefen und anschließend die Recherche als Text umsetzen. Neben theoretischem Wissen enthält dieses Buch auch Beispiele aus der Praxis, die die theoretischen Inhalte veranschaulichen. Dieses Buch soll vor allem Einsteigern im Bereich Texten helfen, schnell grundlegende Fähigkeiten aufzubauen, um aussagekräftige Texte zu verfassen. Es war die Intention des Buches, einen Leitfaden für Volontäre und Trainees aus den Bereichen Medien und Kommunikation zu schaffen, durch den man innerhalb eines Nachmittags die Grundlagen des Textens lernen kann. Auch soll dieses Buch seine Leser dazu anregen, ihr Wissen konsequent praktisch anzuwenden und sich weiter mit der Materie Texten auseinanderzusetzen.
Journalistisches Handeln in der Skandalberichterstattung: Eine handlungstheoretische Analyse aus der Perspektive von Politik- und Sportkommunikatoren
by Natascha WehlischSkandale sind zweifellos ein wichtiges Korrektiv innerhalb demokratischer Gesellschaften. Gleichzeitig kritisieren Sozialwissenschaftler den verstärkten Einsatz von Skandalisierungen als Mittel im massenmedialen Aufmerksamkeitswettbewerb sowie beobachtbare Personalisierungs- und Boulevardisierungstendenzen der Berichterstattung, die langfristig zu dysfunktionalen Effekten in der Bevölkerung wie einem Überdruss an Skandalen, Abstumpfungseffekten und gesellschaftlicher Instabilität führen können. Die Autorin zeigt aufbauend auf einem strukturell-individualistischen Modell sowie leitfadengestützten Experteninterviews mit Journalisten verschiedener Mediengattungen und Ressorts, wie unterschiedliche interne und externe Bedingungen die Handlungsentscheidung von Journalisten in Skandalsituationen beeinflussen und wie Einzelhandlungen verschiedener Akteure in ihrer Aggregation zu unerwünschten gesellschaftlichen Folgeeffekten führen können. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit sollen zu einer Versachlichung der Diskussion beitragen und negativen Folgeeffekten zunehmender medialer Skandalisierung durch eine Sensibilisierung der Akteure entgegenwirken.
Journalists and Confidential Sources: Colliding Public Interests in the Age of the Leak (Routledge Research in Journalism)
by Joseph M FernandezJournalists and Confidential Sources explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers and others to whom they owe an obligation of confidentiality. It examines the difficulties afflicting such relationships; the deteriorating ‘right to know’ and freedom of expression frameworks; and explores solutions and reforms. The book discusses key Australian and international source protection ethics rules, statutes, court cases, law enforcement actions and case studies. It highlights weakness in journalists’ professional practice codes governing confidentiality obligations; discusses inadequate journalistic appreciation of the importance of establishing clear terms and conditions underpinning confidentiality obligations; and identifies shortcomings in the law governing source protection. The book argues that despite source protection being widely recognised as an important ideal, source protection is under sustained assault, thereby undermining public access to information, and democracy itself. The work focusses on Australia, but takes into account source protection in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand. This timely contribution to the global discussion on the subject will greatly interest journalists, scholars, educators, and students especially in the areas of media law and policy, journalism, media and communication studies, and public relations; the legal fraternity; and anyone who communicates with journalists.
Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany
by Volker R. BerghahnThe moral and political role of German journalists before, during, and after the Nazi dictatorshipJournalists between Hitler and Adenauer takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, Volker Berghahn focuses on the lives and work of three remarkable individuals: Marion Countess Dönhoff, distinguished editor of Die Zeit; Paul Sethe, “the grand old man of West German journalism”; and Hans Zehrer, editor in chief of Die Welt.All born before 1914, Dönhoff, Sethe, and Zehrer witnessed the Weimar Republic’s end and opposed Hitler. When the latter seized power in 1933, they were, like their fellow Germans, confronted with the difficult choice of entering exile, becoming part of the active resistance, or joining the Nazi Party. Instead, they followed a fourth path—“inner emigration”—psychologically distancing themselves from the regime, their writing falling into a gray zone between grudging collaboration and active resistance. During the war, Dönhoff and Sethe had links to the 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, while Zehrer remained out of sight on a North Sea island. In the decades after 1945, all three became major figures in the West German media. Berghahn considers how these journalists and those who chose inner emigration interpreted Germany’s horrific past and how they helped to morally and politically shape the reconstruction of the country.With fresh archival materials, Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer sheds essential light on the influential position of the German media in the mid-twentieth century and raises questions about modern journalism that remain topical today.
The Journalist's Companion
by Christopher B. DalyThe Journalist’s Companion is the book for every journalist and journalism student’s coat pocket or backpack. Anchored by an annotated copy of the U.S. Constitution, this slim and portable volume provides guidance, inspiration, and practical advice for being a journalist today. A veteran front-line news reporter and professor of journalism for another twenty years, Christopher B. Daly has seen the attempts to silence and intimidate journalists. The Journalist’s Companion gives reporters, editors, and students the inspiration to stand tall along with advice to do their work well, accurately, and fearlessly. This book also includes a brief guide on how to file a Freedom of Information Act demand, a checklist for reporters and editors designed to increase the level of accuracy in their work, a primer on copyright and professional courtesy, and a quick guide to staying safe while on assignment.
The Journalist's Craft: A Guide to Writing Better Stories
by Dennis Jackson John SweeneyThis inspiring collection of 19 essays from veteran news writers explains how to weave storytelling skills into nonfiction narratives. Journalists of all backgrounds and levels of experience will discover dozens of exercises that have been tested successfully in newsrooms, workshops, and classrooms, and will cover everything from the fundamentals of reporting, writing and revising to more specialized elements like creating rhythm, cadence, and voice; employing dialogue and scene-building; and such devices as foreshadowing, symbols, and metaphors. Contributors are all veteran journalists, including Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, and several Pulitzer Prize-winners.