Table of Contents:
  • Presses and democracies / Daniel C. Hallin and Robert Giles
  • American journalism in historical perspective / Michael Schudson and Susan E. Tifft
  • The nature and sources of news / Robert M. Entman
  • Definitions of journalism / Barbie Zelizer
  • The alternative press (currently) / Pamela Newkirk
  • Journalism and democracy across borders / John Keane
  • What democracy requires of the media / James Curran
  • The marketplace of ideas / Robert Schmuhl and Robert G. Picard
  • The agenda setting function of the press / Maxwell McCombs
  • On the public responsibility of the press / W. Lance Bennett and William Serrin
  • Informing the public / Thomas Patterson and Philip Seib
  • The role of the press in mobilizing citizen participation / Esther Thorson
  • Government and the press / Martha Joynt Kumar and Alex Jones
  • Public policy toward the press / Timothy E. Cook
  • The First Amendment tradition and its critics / Bruce W. Sanford and Jane E. Kirtley
  • Legal evolution of the government-news media relationship / Jane E. Kirtley
  • Communications regulation in protecting the public interest / Robert B. Horwitz
  • Journalism and the public interest / Daniel Schorr
  • The military and the media / William Prochnau
  • Money, media, and the public interest / Robert G. Picard
  • The market and the media / James T. Hamilton
  • The press and the politics of representation / Mitchell Stephens and David T.Z. Mindich
  • The legacy of autonomy in American journalism / Theodore L. Glasser and Marc Gunther
  • What kind of journalism does the public need? / Carolyn Marvin and Philip Meyer
  • The future of news, the future of journalism / John Carey and Nancy Hicks Maynard.