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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.

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

What other essential books about journalism every journalism student, or perhaps everybody, should read, have not yet been mentioned above?

8.	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?

9.	Please feel free to make any additional comments you feel could be helpful for this project here.

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