Journalism & Meaning-Making: Reading the Newspaper (Mass Communication and Journalism)

This text is an exciting collection of essays that puts the issue of making sense of reality at the center of the debate about journalism. Intellectually challenging and provocative, the essays invite readers to think critically about the information circulating in the news media, and to explore the position of journalism in society. Well-illustrated case studies support historical, linguistic, sociological and cultural analyses of the tools, techniques and rules journalists use to represent, intrpret and construct reality.