Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective (Key Concepts in Journalism) - Softcover

Waisbord, Pro Silvio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745651925 ISBN 13: 9780745651927

Publisher: Polity, 2012

Synopsis

At a time of crisis and anxiety about the future of news, it is opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. This engaging and insightful book critically examines the meanings, expectations, and critiques of professional journalism in a global context.

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Review:

This book is the go-to manuscript on journalistic professionalism. It forces  readers to repeatedly reset what they know,  importing critical questions and  valuable answers that change our sense of what professionalism is and how it works.  A tour de force!
Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Silvio Waisbord offers a fresh, engaging perspective on a key set of simmering debates. In arguing that professionalism is necessary for journalism to be a counterweight to power, he encourages us to rethink the core ethics of news reporting in a manner alert to questions of responsibility, transparency and accountability. Reinventing Professionalism is a must read.
Stuart Allan, The Media School, Bournemouth University

In cutting through disparate literatures about journalism, Silvio Waisbord makes a daring, sophisticated argument about professionalism and explains why journalism practices and ethics can simultaneously differ, hybridize, and overlap around the world. This book deserves, and will enjoy, a long shelf life.
Linda Steiner, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland

At a time of huge turmoil surrounding the occupation of journalism, Silvio Waisbord  provides a supremely 'professional' account of the boundaries of journalistic work. Scholars and students interested in the history and origins  of journalism practice will find a clear and detailed analysis of how the myriad of ideas surrounding professionalism in journalism evolved.
Howard Tumber, City University London

About the Author:

Silvio Waisbord is professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University and the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745651925
• ISBN 13: 9780745651927
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280