Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era

by Matt Carlson

Book Overview

When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a relationship arising in the connections between those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231174454
• ISBN13: 9780231174459
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher