Imagining journalism beginnings
Definitions of journalism
Intro Section 1: Cues for considering key tensions in journalism / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck
On "having been there": "eyewitnessing" as a journalistic key word
On the shelf life of democracy in journalism scholarship
When practice is undercut by ethics
Intro section 2: Cues for considering disciplinary matters / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck
Journalism and the academy
Journalism in the service of communication
When facts, truth, and reality are god-terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies
Intro section 3: cues for considering new ways of thinking about journalistic practice / Barbie Zelizer, Jennifer Henrichsen and Natacha Yazbeck
Journalists as interpretive communities
The culture of journalism
When war and conflict are reduced to a photograph
Endings: thinking temporally about journalism's future.