1st Edition

What Journalists Are Owed How Structures, Systems and Audiences Enable News Work Today

Edited By Fred Vultee, Lee Wilkins Copyright 2020
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

The study of news and news practice is rich in examinations of what journalists owe to society. However, this book looks at what journalists can expect from society: what roles ownership structures, colleagues, governments and audiences should play so journalists can do their jobs well – and safely. What Journalists Are Owed draws on a variety of research perspectives – legal and ethical... Read more

Introduction: Duties, Rights and Election-Night Pizza: Toward an Agenda of ‘What Journalists Are Owed, Fred Vultee and Lee Wilkins

Chapter 1: All in the Game: Communitarianism and The Wire, Chad Painter

Chapter 2: What Does Society Owe Political Cartoonists? Jenn Burleson Mackay

Chapter 3: The Networks of Global Journalism: Global News Construction Through the Collaboration of Global News Startups with Freelancers, Lea Hellmueller, Sadia Ehsan Cheema, Xu Zhang

Chapter 4: Pakistani Government-News Media Relationships: How Relevant Are Western Journalistic Values? Nadeem Akhtar and Cornelius B. Pratt

Chapter 5: Rearticulating New York Times V. Sullivan As A Social Duty to Journalists, Aimee Edmondson

Chapter 6: Watching Over the Watchdogs: The Problems that Filipino Journalists Face, Edson C. Tandoc Jr.

Biography

Fred Vultee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Wayne State University, USA.



Lee Wilkins is a Professor Emerita at the Department of Communication, Wayne State University, USA and Professor Emerita at the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, USA.