News form and the media environment
A Network of Represented Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7512334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Nerone (0000-0003-2481-9611, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA,, corresponding author), Kevin G Barnhurst (University of Illinois Chicago), Kevin Barnhurst (0000-0001-8684-8237, University of Illinois Chicago) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-124 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443703025001594 |
| OpenAlex | W1967272594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 13 |
US newspapers did not assume their modern form until well into the 20th century. Through the 1880s, all but the largest metropolitan dailies limited themselves to four pages in length and featured very little illustration. Until the 1920s, most dailies crowded dozens of items on their front pages, producing a Darwinian struggle for the citizen’s attention. By the 1960s, newspapers came to look fully modern, with all the cues of expert explanation incorporated into their appearance and organization, accommodating a citizenry with little time or inclination to read. Soon after that, the modern moment began to erode. For the most part, historians have ignored these changes in appearance, implicitly judging the form of news to be insignificant compared with the movement of information through the newspaper or the explicit engagement of news-workers in the political realm. This is a mistake. The form of news has as much to do with its work in the world as its content does. Changes in form signal deep changes in the role the newspaper has played in the civic life of the nation
Front (military · Geography · Journalism · Media studies · Mistake · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication
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Teaching journalism to produce “interpretive communities” rather than just “professionals
Narative journalism in the contemporary newsroom
The Tyranny of the Empty Frame
Re-imagining crisis reporting
What is journalism
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Liquid Modern Journalism with a Difference
Print and Online News
| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2021 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |