Cultural Meanings of News

• Acknowledgments - Dan BerkowitzIntroducation: From Journalistic Roots to Cultural Perspectives - Dan BerkowitzPart I: A Framework for Thinking About the Meanings of News - Dan Berkowitz1. Understanding the Global Journalist: A Hierarchy of Influences Approach - Stephen D. Reese2. What Is Journalism? Preofessional Identity and Ideology of Journalists Reconsidered - Mark Deuze3. Deconstructing Journalism Culture: Toward a Universal Theory - Thomas HanitzschPart II: Cultural Practice of Journalism - Dan Berkowitz4. The Socially Responsible Existentialist: A Normative Emphasis for Journalists in a New Media Environment - Jane B. Singer5. Blasphemy as Sacred Rite/Right: ′The Mohammed Cartoons Affair′ and Maintenance of Journalistic Ideology - Dan Berkowitz and Lyombe Eko6. The Journalistic Gut Feeling: Journalistic Doxa, News Habitus and Orthodox News Values - Ida Schultz7. Media Ritual in Catastrophic Time: The Populist Turn in Television Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - Frank DurhamPart III: Making Meaning in the Journalistic Interpretive Community - Dan Berkowitz8. War Journalism and the ′KIA Journalist′: The Cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly - Matt Carlson9. The Importance of Ritual in Crisis Journalism - Kristina Riegert and Eva-Karin Olsson10. ′Someone′s Gotta Be in Control Here′: The Institutionalization of Online News and the Creation of Shared Jounalistic Authority - Sue Robinson11. Broader and Deeper: A Study of Newsroom Culture in a Time of Change - David RyfePart IV: Repairing the Jounalistic Paradigm - Dan Berkowitz12. The Princess and the Paparazzi: Blame, Responsibility, and the Media′s Role in the Death of Diana - Elizabeth Blanks Hindman13. ′These Crowded Circumstances′: When Pack Journalists Bash Pack Journalism - Russell Frank14. Israeli Image Repair: Recasting the Deviant Actor to Retell the Story - Robert L. Handley15. A Paradigm in Process: What the Scapegoating of Vusi Mona Signalled About South African Journalism - Guy BergerPart V: News Narratives as Cultural Text - Dan Berkowitz16. Why Peace Journalism Isn′t News - Liz Fawcett17. ′Lost Boys′ and the Promised Land: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Sudanese Refugees - Melinda B. Robins18. Crafting Cultural Resonance: Imaginative Power in Everyday Journalism - James S. Ettema19. Medea in the Media: Narrative and Myth in the Newspaper Coverage of Women Who Kill Their Children - Barbara BarnettPart VI: News as Collective Memory - Dan Berkowitz20. Reporting Through the Lens of the Past: From Challenger to Columbia - Jill Edy and Miglena Daradanova21. Memory in Journalism and the Memory of Journalism: Israeli Journalists and the Constructed Legacy of Haolam Hazeh - Oren Meyes22. Making Memories Matter: Journalistic Authority and the Memorializing Discourse Around Mary McGrory and David Brinkley - Matt Carlson23. ′ We Were All There′: Remembering America in the Anniversary Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - Sue RobinsonEpilogue: Reflecting on Cultural Meanings of News - Dan BerkowitzIndexAbout the Editor

The book is interesting and provides a lot of insights in the cultural aspects of news and newsrooms. But it is not really relevant for the course for which it was a good candidate. I will consider it for a future course with more relevant content.