Essential books in Journalism
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Please vote for the eight books about journalism you think are essential for any journalism student, or perhaps everybody, to read. While we hope that you will vote for eight (8) books overall, you do NOT have to vote for any books within a SPECIFIC category. There is also room for you to write in candidates that have not yet been mentioned, within each section. Moreover, you can vote for fewer than eight books, if you don’t think there are eight worthy candidates. Or you can vote for more than eight books , if you think eight is too limited. The survey has ten questions and should only take a couple of minutes to complete. The current candidates are based on a survey conducted at the Joint Journalism Historians Conference this spring and informal conversations. Thank you for participating.
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Journalism and Society
Public Opinion, Walter Lippman
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
The Whole World is Watching, Todd Gitlin
Communication and Culture , James Carey
The Printing Press and Cultural Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein
Republic.com, Cass Sunstein
The Manufacture of Consent, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky
The Media is American, Jeremy Tunstall
The Media is Not American, Jeremy Tunstall
The New Media Monopoly, Ben Bagdikian
Power Without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain, Jame Curran
If other, please specify
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The History and Development of Journalism
Discovering the News, Michael Schudson
The Creation of the Media, Paul Starr
Comparative Media History , Jane Chapman
We, the Media, Dan Gilmore
A History of News, Mitchell Stephens
War and Press Freedom, Jeffrey Smith
Journalistic Standards in the 19th Century, Hazel Dickens Garcia
Make No Law, Anthony Lewis
Get Me a Murder a Day!: A History of Mass Communication in Britain, Kevin Williams
Bourdieu and the Journalism Field, Rodney Benson
If other, please specify
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Doing Journalism
All the President’s Men, Woodward and Bernstein
The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse
The Race Beat, Eugene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
The First Casualty, Philip Knightly
The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm
Deciding What’s News, Herbert Gans
Making the News, Gaye Tuchman
Front Page, Ben Hecht
My Trade, Andrew Marr
Good Times, Bad Times, Harold Evans
If other, please specify
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Biographies and Histories of Media Institutions
Personal History, Katherine Graham
Newspaper Days, Theodore Dreiser
Walter Lippman and the Rise of the American Century, Ronald Steele
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism, Bob Edwards
Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life, Caroline Moorehead
The Paper, Richard Kluger
The Powers that Be, David Halberstam
Editor, Max Hastings
Publish and be damned!: The astonishing story of the Daily Mirror, Hugh Cudlipp
If other, please specify
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Classic Reporting
Hiroshima, John Hershey
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Stephens
Dispatches, Michael Herr
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Byline Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway and William White
If other, please specify
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Journalism Critiques
The Elements of Journalism, Bill Kovach and Thomas Rosenthiel
The Wayward Pressman, A.J. Liebling
Why I Write, George Orwell
Killing the Messenger, Tom Goldstein
Super Media: Saving Journalism so it can Save the World, Charlie Beckett
What are Journalists For, Jay Rosen
If other, please specify
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What other essential books about journalism every journalism student, or perhaps everybody, should read, have not yet been mentioned above?
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Are there any books listed above that you feel strongly should definitely NOT be included in any list of essential books that any journalism student, or everybody, should read? If so, which one(s) and why?
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Please feel free to make any additional comments you feel could be helpful for this project here.
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