Key readings in journalism / edited by Elliot King & Jane L. Chapman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: what we should know -- The development of journalism. Discovering the news / Michael Schudson -- A place in the news / Kay Mills -- Technology and ideology: the case of the telegraph / James W. Carey -- The African American newspaper / Pat Washburn -- Comparative media history / Jane Chapman -- Free for all: the Internet's transformation of journalism / Elliot King -- Doing Journalism. Deciding what's news / Herbert Gans -- The face of war / Martha Gellhorn -- The race beat / Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff -- The first casualty / M. Phillip Knightley -- All the President's men / Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward -- The girls in the balcony / Nan Robertson -- Biography. Pulitzer: a life in politics, print and power / James McGrath Morris -- The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens / Lincoln Steffens -- Margaret Bourke White: a biography / Vicki Goldberg -- Murrow: his life and times / A.M. Sperber -- Breaking barriers / Carl Rowan -- Personal history / Katherine Graham -- Classic reporting. Southern horrors: Lynch Law in all its phases / Ida Wells-Barnett -- A history of Standard Oil Company / Ida Tarbell -- Ernie's war / David Nichols -- Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- In cold blood / Truman Capote -- The boys on the bus / Timothy Crouse -- Journalism and society. Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Public opinion / Walter Lippmann -- The brass check / Upton Sinclair -- A free and responsible press: the Hutchins Committee response / Robert D. Leigh -- The press / A.J. Liebling -- Manufacturing consent: the political cconomy of the mass media / Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky -- On television and journalism / Pierre Bourdieu.