| News Values: Ideas for an Information Age Contributor(s): Fuller, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226268799 ISBN-13: 9780226268798 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1996 Annotation: News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Chicago Tribune president and publisher Jack Fuller tackles the most pressing questions facing journalists in the nineties: What kind of truth do they claim to communicate? To what end? Should journalists lead or follow their communities? How are decisions about what makes "news" related to marketing? What is the future of newspapers? Drawing on thirty years of experience, from police reporter to editorial writer, war correspondent to editor, Fuller looks at what journalism should do in a free society and why. Focusing on tensions central to modern-day newspaper publishing - the duty to truth vs. the obligation to sources; the push for diversity vs. the need for coherence; the responsibility to reflect and, when necessary, oppose the community one serves - Fuller argues that intellectually honest "news values" do exist and can continue to guide journalists even in today's competitive marketplace. Finally, Fuller examines advances in digital technology merging text, audio, and video and asks whether the new interactive electronic media will hasten newspapers' demise or stimulate their revival. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Political Science |
| Dewey: 070.4 |
| LCCN: 95033951 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.81" W x 8.72" (1.03 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow. Every talk show host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . . 'Pursuit of truth is not a license to be a jerk.' In all too many newsrooms, that statement would resound like a three-bell bulletin.--Martin F. Nolan, New York Times Book Review News Values] ought to be required reading not just for those who work for newspapers, but for all those who read and care about them. . . . This book] seems destined to become one of those slim but important volumes people read for a long time to come.--Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal Fuller stays above the fray of the many books on the media]: His is a deeply intellectual approach, one that provides serious context to the highly complicated issue of how the news 'works.'--Duncan McDonald, Chicago Tribune Books News Values has the touch and feel of knowledgeable, authentic caring about the kind of journalism than can help make society more cohesive, even human. --Monitor's Pick, Christian Science Monitor |
Contributor Bio(s): Fuller, Jack: - Jack Fuller was editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism. He served as special assistant to Edward H. Levi in the Department of Justice. |