Description
Through in-depth interviews with award-winning investigative reporters and detailed analyses of the stories that brought them professional acclaim, the authors explain how journalists resolve, practically if not conceptually, the paradox of a press that is committed to exposing wrongdoing and is at the same time adamant about its disinterest in questions of right and wrong.
About the Author
JAMES S. ETTEMA is on the faculty of the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the editor, with D. Charles Whitney, of Individuals in Mass Media Organizations: Creativity and Constraint and Audience Making: How the Media Created the Audience.THEODORE L. GLASSER is a director of the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University. He is the editor of the Idea of Public Journalism and, with Charles T. Salmon, Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent.
Reviews
The most thoughtful book in years about the intellectual assumptions behind investigative journalism... It's hard to imagine any journalist who wouldn't do investigative reporting more thoughtfully, or any citizen who wouldn't read it more insightfully, after this two-teacher seminar. -- Carlin Romano The Philadelphia Inquirer
Awards
Winner of Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism 1998 and Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award 1998 and Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism (Research About Journalism Category) 1998.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231106757
Author James S. Ettema
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press