The Sociology of News reviews and synthesizes not only what is happening to journalism but also what is happening to the scholarly understanding of journalism. In the Second Edition, each chapter of the book has been updated to account for the radical changes that have reshaped the news industry over the last decade. With a new chapter on the sharp contraction of the news business in the United States since 2007, The Sociology of News examines journalism as a social institution and analyzes the variety of forces and factors-economic, technological, political, cultural, organizational-that shape the news media today.
Introduction: Making News
Part I: Journalism Now
Chapter One: Defining Journalism
Chapter Two: Does News Matter?
Chapter Three: Media Bias
Chapter Four: Where News Came From: The History of Journalism to
Watergate
Chapter Five: In Recent Memory: News from Watergate to the
Web
Part II: The Components of News-Making
Chapter Six: News in the Marketplace
Chapter Seven: News Sources
Chapter Eight: The Political Culture of News
Chapter Nine: The Audience for News
Chapter Ten: News as Literature and Narrative
Part III: The News and Society
Chapter Eleven: Law, Democracy, and News
Chapter Twelve: News Revolutions, Digital and Global.
