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Everyman news [electronic resource] : the changing American front page / by Michele Weldon

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008Description: 1 online resource (ix, 286 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780826217776 (alk. paper)
  • 082621777X (alk. paper)
  • 9780826266248 (electronic bk.)
  • 082626624X (electronic bk.)
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Contents:
1. Should the personal become universal? -- 2. The results : an anecdotal companion to history -- 3. Content as commodity : giving readers what they want -- 4. Citizen journalism and chicken little -- 5. What's blogging got to do with it? -- 6. Humanizing the news after 9/11 -- 7. The old, the new, the good, the bad, and the long and the short of narrative -- 8. Diversity of thought shifts content -- 9. The therapeutic story flow model -- 10. Fifteen seconds of fame : a cultural reverence for story -- 11. Emergence journalism : where we go from here -- Appendix : Data from twenty newspapers measuring features, feature leads, and unofficial sources
Summary: "Examines how newspapers have changed over the past few years, becoming story papers. Comparing 850 stories, story approaches, and unofficial sourcing in twenty American newspapers from 2001 and 2004, Weldon reveals a shift toward features over hard news, along with an increase in anecdotal or humanistic approaches to all stories"--Provided by publisher
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E-book E-book UMPLIB GAMBANG PN4888.F43 W45 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 0000057192

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-279) and index

1. Should the personal become universal? -- 2. The results : an anecdotal companion to history -- 3. Content as commodity : giving readers what they want -- 4. Citizen journalism and chicken little -- 5. What's blogging got to do with it? -- 6. Humanizing the news after 9/11 -- 7. The old, the new, the good, the bad, and the long and the short of narrative -- 8. Diversity of thought shifts content -- 9. The therapeutic story flow model -- 10. Fifteen seconds of fame : a cultural reverence for story -- 11. Emergence journalism : where we go from here -- Appendix : Data from twenty newspapers measuring features, feature leads, and unofficial sources

"Examines how newspapers have changed over the past few years, becoming story papers. Comparing 850 stories, story approaches, and unofficial sourcing in twenty American newspapers from 2001 and 2004, Weldon reveals a shift toward features over hard news, along with an increase in anecdotal or humanistic approaches to all stories"--Provided by publisher

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