The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826222961)

The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in "news factories" by news workers with dozens of different roles, and not just once a day, but hourly, using the latest technology and setting the stage for the emergence later in the century of the information economy. During this time, the newsroom was more than a physical place--it symbolically represented all that was good and bad in journalism, from the shift from blue- to white-collar work to the flexing of journalism's power as a watchdog on government and an advocate for social reform. Told from an empathetic, omnivorous, ground-up point of view, The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 uses memoirs, trade journals, textbooks, and archival material to show how the newsroom expanded our ideas of what journalism could and should be.

Author: Will Mari
ISBN-10: 082622296X
ISBN-13: 9780826222961
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2023
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d