Understanding Journalism

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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Understanding Journalism , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Understanding Journalism. Lists with This Book. May 15, Clare O'Beara rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is an excellent read for anyone studying journalism, which expects that the reader knows all the basics; it deliberates ethics, interviewing and sub-editing as well as being sent out to cover a story.

The setting is often Australia which adds colour to the interviews, such as a survival story of a man and two dogs escaping crocodiles and living off buffalo for weeks in the bush. An example story is given as a scenario with flow charts and suggestions for proceeding; the mayor's wife, tempor This is an excellent read for anyone studying journalism, which expects that the reader knows all the basics; it deliberates ethics, interviewing and sub-editing as well as being sent out to cover a story.

An example story is given as a scenario with flow charts and suggestions for proceeding; the mayor's wife, temporarily on mental health medication, shoplifts and is brought to court.

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Do you print the story? Why would you when you don't print every far more serious shoplifting case? Is the mayor's wife the same category of public figure as the elected mayor? Does her illness deserve privacy or should it be mentioned as a mitigating factor, as it was in court? A new story is provided to illustrate each chapter's points.

I like this approach as it really gets the reader thinking about the issues. Where the author falls down could be repetition, especially in the chapter on editing, showing us five versions of a story on the road to shortening and improving. I am experienced at editing and other readers may get more value out of this approach.

I also dislike her choice of 'but' to illustrate starting a sentence with a preposition. But is almost always a conjunction, not a preposition. Under, over, at, in, on are prepositions. The sole use of 'but' in this context is in the suggested example "Everyone ate frogs' legs but Jack. If the author wants to tell us not to start a sentence with a conjunction, 'but' would be fine. I like the way that references are added to content, nice quotes about the work of journalism and musings on ethics sprinkled through the text with a book list at the end of each chapter.

The final reference section gives all authors quoted by initials so I was unable to say how many women were listed. Seven names which I could be sure were female were in the brief index.

I borrowed this book from Dublin Business School Library. This is an unbiased review.

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What are my ethical concerns?

Understanding Journalism

Newspaper sales are constantly in decline, newsrooms are shrinking, and in just the United States there are below 40, full-time media professional employees; the lowest level since Blogs proliferate, readers flock to free content, almost everybody can now be called a journalist, and in general media seems in total disarray. Well, it is not as dramatic as it seems, as Lynette Sheridan Burns posits in Understanding Journalism.

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The question here concerns what we actually understand by journalism: Or it is just the result of a particular corporate model of running print newspapers that puts the interest of producers above those of readers? Sheridan Burns is adamant: True journalism belongs to the realm of transparency and accountability, and is a source of perpetual inquiry and shrewd reflection.

Reflection, critical reflection is the key concept for the author, for she defends that in a world overloaded with data, it is not acceptable to bluntly and aseptically reflect the facts.

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They must be contextualized, analyzed to detail, scrutinized, dissected and properly interpreted. Obviously, this idea is not new, and journalism based in critical reflection already has a long history. In , for example, Henry Mayhew wrote London Labour and the London Poor , in which he accurately dissected the harsh conditions in which many Londoners were trapped. It is quite refreshing to remember, as Sheridan Burns does, that this is precisely this kind of intellectually stimulating, ethically-based, heavily-researched, well-crafted and compellingly-explained production what best describes what journalism truly is.

Since the s, media moguls have given priority to advertising above content, and propitiating news that offered readers what they supposedly wanted to read instead of what they had the right to know. As a result, the editing process began to vanish, official data was often reported without being checked, and the news was rife with cogent words, maximalist assumptions, and quick bursts of information, not always properly assembled, and more than often without being adequately contextualized.

Is there still a public for this kind of insightful journalism? Or, in other words, are people willing to pay for it? Yet, I think that the answer is affirmative. But it was a total success, and went on to become one of the best-selling issues in recent years.