Communication Studies & Journalism

For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devices—fast, abundant, and mostly free—that era is ending. Our best journalists, Mitchell Stephens argues, instead must offer original, challenging perspectives—not just slightly more thorough accounts of widely reported events. His book proposes a new standard: "wisdom journalism," an amalgam of the more rarified forms of reporting—exclusive, enterprising, investigative—and informed, insightful, interpretive, explanatory, even opinionated takes on current events.

Anthology of essays on the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints.

Introduction : An ESPN culture -- From the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network to ESPN -- SportsCentury : programming public sport history -- ESPN the magazine and Page 2 : paper and digital sports pages -- ESPN original entertainment : branding authority across genres -- ESPN films : "unprecedented documentary series" by "filmmaking originals" -- Grantland : ESPN's Miramax -- Conclusion : From Frontline to the bottom line -- Appendix A. The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network's first press release -- Appendix B. SportsCentury top one hundred athletes of the twentieth century -- Appendix C. SportsCentury panel.

Interpersonal communication has been studied in terms of both communication functions and specialized contexts. This handbook comprehensively covers the field including research on processes of social influence, the role of communication in the development, maintenance and decline of close personal relationships, nonverbal communication, cognitive approaches, communication and conflict, bargaining and negotiation, health communication, organizational socialization and supervisor-subordinate communication, social networks, and technologically-mediated interpersonal communication. Two chapters are dedicated to research methods in the field. The handbook includes chapters by widely recognized and respected scholars in the field.

"Does objectivity exist in the news media? In The Invention of Journalism Ethics, Stephen Ward argues that given the current emphasis on interpretation, analysis, and perspective, journalists and the public need a new theory of objectivity. He explores the varied ethical assertions of journalists over the past few centuries, focusing on the changing relationship between journalist and audience. This historical analysis leads to an innovative theory of pragmatic objectivity that enables journalists and the public to recognize and avoid biased and unbalanced reporting

Introduction: All the news that's fit to tell -- The beginnings of news publication: Power and imagination ; The wheels of commerce ; The first news prints ; State and nation ; Confidential correspondents ; Marketplace and tavern ; Triumph and tragedy -- Mercury rising: Speeding the posts ; The first newspapers ; War and rebellion ; Storm in a coffee cup -- Enlightenment?: The search for truth ; The age of the journal ; In business ; From our own correspondent ; Cry freedom ; How Samuel Sewall read his paper -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- News, News Publics, and Non-Publics -- Changes and Continuities in the Conditions of News Production -- The Process of News Reception -- Social Conditions of Reception: Commercialization, Convergence, and Content -- Social Conditions of Reception: Class, Gender, and Other Social Divisions -- Journalism, Information Poverty, and Political Exclusion -- Conclusions -- APPENDICES. Methodological Notes -- Questionnaire -- News Diary Format.

We still see many communication graduates with little business knowledge and business graduates with little communication knowledge. This schism leads communication scholars to assume that better communication is an end in itself while management see it as a means to an end - it must somehow contribute to the bottom line. How can strategic communication and public relations support corporations? What can communicators learn from management disciplines? Moreover, how should universities and business schools deal with the need to integrate research and education from different disciplines to advance the field? This book addresses these challenges and offers some answers. The contributions from primarily European countries were selected from a large number of peer-reviewed contributions for the 2015 congress of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association hosted by BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. The chapters explore challenges of linking both fields; discuss research focusing on communication, leadership and organisational goals; and present findings from current research in corporate communication.

How and why did public opinion--long cherished as a foundation of democratic government--become an increasing source of concern for American Progressives? Following World War I, political commentator Walter Lippmann worried that citizens increasingly held inaccurate and misinformed beliefs because of the way information was produced, circulated, and received in a mass-mediated society. Lippmann dubbed this manipulative opinion-making process "the manufacture of consent."