edited by Hugo de Burgh ; foreword by James Curran.
New York :
Routledge,
2005.
1 online resource (xv, 296 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
INTRODUCTION: JOURNALISM AND THE NEW CULTURAL PARADIGM / Hugo de Burgh -- WHAT IS JOURNALISM? / Brian McNair -- WHO ARE JOURNALISTS? / David H. Weaver -- JOURNALISM AND THE MAKING OF A PROFESSION / Howard Tumber and Marina Prentoulis -- IS THERE A EUROPEAN MODEL OF JOURNALISM? / Paolo Mancini -- THE US MODEL OF JOURNALISM: EXCEPTION OR EXEMPLAR? / Michael Schudson -- THE CONCEPTION OF CHINESE JOURNALISTS: IDEOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE AND CONTESTATION / Chin-Chuan Lee -- ADAPTING TO GLOBALISATION: THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF JOURNALISM IN INDIA / Daya Kishan Thussu -- THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF ARAB JOURNALISM / Naomi Sakr -- AFRICAN JOURNALISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRATIC MEDIA / Helge Ronning -- FROM LAPDOG TO WATCHDOG: THE ROLE OF THE PRESS IN LATIN AMERICA?S MODERNIZATION / Rosental Calmon Alves -- THE EVOLUTION OF JOURNALISM EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES / Betty Medsger -- WHO?S TO MAKE JOURNALISTS? / Angela Phillips -- RUNNING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAUNTLET: NEW MEDIA AND JOURNALISM / John V. Pavlik -- CAN WE MAKE JOURNALISTS BETTER? / Theodore L. Glasser and Lise Marken.
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