Social meanings of news : a text-reader /
Dan Berkowitz, Editor.
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.
- xiv, 535 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Text collecting classic and contemporary studies in mass communication and applying a journalist's view to answer questions concerning news production. The 30 essays are presented in a conceptual framework of news as a social production and the discussions consider topics in how news functions in the workplace, as a profession, an economic entity, as a cultural text, and a social ideology.